What is this example

This example covers a way to create and maintain an app access token in PHP. And store that app access token in a Flat file to maintain/recover it between restarts and for use in other programs running on the same server.

There are three examples

• Generating app access token via form post
• Generating app access token via query string post (like the docs)
• A script to load an existing token and regenerate if it's close to expiration

Reference Documentation

• oAuth Client Credentials Flow
• Validating Requests

Setting up the config

• Open config_sample.php in a text editor
• Visit Twitch Dev Console
• Visit Applications
• Manage your Application, or create one if you don't have one
• Copy the Client ID into the "" of CLIENT_ID
• Hit New Secret and then Ok
• Then copy the now Displayed Client Secret into the "" of CLIENT_SECRET
• Save your modified file as config.php

Running the example

In a console/terminal, run php and the script you want to test.