Using stream_context_create to do a POST -- Result is false:(

Question

Maybe someone can point out what I may be doing wrong here. I'm messing around with the Google API and OAuth so I can register users through google to my application. I found the PHP they provide pretty cumbersome so I decided to get more practice performing https requests and such. I've had some success so far, but the final step in getting a token to exchange for user information requires a POST method. Simply redirecting the browser, copying the final url with a GET method returns an error. I'm about to start digging around in the cURL extension next, but maybe someone can spot whats wrong with this code?

$url = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token";
$fields = array(
    'code' => $_GET['code'],
    'client_id' => $google['clientID'],
    'client_secret' => $google['clientSecret'],
    'redirect_uri' => "http://www.qwiku.com/scripts/php/google/reg_response.php",
    'grant_type' => "authorization_code"
);

$data = http_build_query($fields);

echo $data."<br />";

$context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'method' => 'POST',
        'header' => 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'content' => $data
    )
));

$result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);

var_dump($result);

The dump of result is false. You can see the google documentation here but I'm 99% sure the data is formulated correctly. http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer.html#formingtheurl

UPDATE

I'm now using curl and it appears to be working. Only problem is google is returning an error of "invalid_grant." Not sure why as it's set to exactly what they specify.

$url = 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token';
$ch = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Update 2

I refreshed the whole process as I was just refreshing the redirect and bingo, it's working. Code must have expired.

Maybe this helps you? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10025698/authentication-on-google-oauth2-keeps-returning-invalid-grant — func0der, Aug 25 '14 at 15:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Your method seems fine,

See if you've missed anything.

<?php
$data = http_build_query(....

$response = @file_get_contents('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token', false, stream_context_create([
'http' => [ 'method'          => 'POST'
          , 'follow_location' => true
          , 'content'         => $data
          , 'header'          => implode("\r\n", ['Accept: */*'
                                                , 'Connection: keep-alive'
                                                , 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
                                                , 'User-Agent: jacob']) . "\r\n"
]]));
?>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '14 at 13:46

You could try to use another method for that, for example using an http client class that provide you all the things like this:

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/576-PHP-GET-HEAD-POST-methods-with-a-lot-of-features.html

Or try to use a class for OAuth as you want like this:

http://www.phpclasses.org/package/7700-PHP-Authorize-and-access-APIs-using-OAuth.html

I've already implemented that over Practico Framework and everything works fine for me instead the use of stream_context_create.

Regards

Using stream_context_create to do a POST -- Result is false:(

2 Answers2

Your method seems fine,