Modify Channel Information API in PHP

[Katarina_Wyatt]

I’m attempting to automate updating stream title and game because my streamer partner is struggling with remembering to do those. This is my first stab at doing it in PHP - here’s my code (minus extraneous var_dump bits):

$URD = curl_init();
$URDarray = array(   
    'game_id'=>'32982',
    'title'=>'There be chaos up in here',
    'broadcaster_language'=>'en'
);  

$URDinput = json_encode($URDarray);    
curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.twitch.tv/helix/channels?broadcaster_id=501071947");
curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(  
    'Content-type: application/json',
    'Authorization: Bearer '.$authtoken,   
    'Client-ID: '.$clientid,         
)); 
curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH');
curl_setopt($UCR, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$URDinput);
$URRdata = json_decode(curl_exec($URD),true);
curl_close($URD);      

The response I’m getting is:
array(3) {
[“error”]=>
string(11) “Bad Request”
[“status”]=>
int(400)
[“message”]=>
string(61) “request must contain at least 1 channel property for updating”
}

Can some kind person please help me figure out what I’ve done wrong - the auth is working, the channel scope is good, so I’m sure there’s just some glaring errors in the way I’ve attempted to do the CURL patch stuff - the documentation is really really unhelpful for novice programmers!

[BarryCarlyon]

curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH');

You delcare both POST and PATCH, so not sure which one succeeded. PATCH should of won. But it may not have done.

Also a typo here

curl_setopt($UCR, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$URDinput);

should be

curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$URDinput);

URD not UCR

[Katarina_Wyatt]

Well the typo certainly doesn’t help - thank you Barry - once again, for being so helpful! Unfortunately he’s gone offline so I can’t test it now so I will give it another try tomorrow!

[BarryCarlyon]

Channel doesn’t need to be online to change the title/game!

[Katarina_Wyatt]

Interesting - it’s pulled the channel information but it’s now giving me a NULL response to the query (after fixing the typo) - literally just ‘NULL’

[Katarina_Wyatt]

If I take out curl_setopt($URD, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, ‘PATCH’); I get a 404 not found

[BarryCarlyon]

This Endpoint only accept’s PATCH’s

The response is a 204 No Content, so NULL is correct.
You should use curl_getinfo (PHP: curl_getinfo - Manual) to extract the HTTP response code.

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