To address some of these issues, I've created a pull request on twitter-api-php that makes it possible to get TwitterAPIExchange working with cURL Lite error handling, however that was not the only change that was required to get everything working.
What I was trying to do was POST a tweet, using code like this...
PHP
$postfields = array(
'status' => $message
);
$twitter = new \TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$t = $twitter->buildOauth('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json', 'POST');
$t = $t->setPostfields($postfields);
$ret = $t->performRequest();
The above was all standard code, pretty much as per the examples. I'm not showing how the $settings array is populated, but that's very straight forward. The problem was, every time I tried to run that code, I'd get this response back from the Twitter API...
Error
{"errors":[{"code":32,"message":"Could not authenticate you."}]}
All of my authentication values in the $settings array were correct however! Something else was wrong. Since I knew that cURL Lite had issues, I started doing more reading and noticed something interesting on the Issuing HTTP(S) Requests page. The $options array that was being passed to curl_setopt_array() had an additional option that TwitterAPIExchange was not setting.
That option was CURLOPT_POST and it was set like this - CURLOPT_POST => count($data). Technically this was a boolean field but I can see what the example from Google was trying to do. I decided to run with it.
Luckily TwitterAPIExchange had a provision for setting your own cURL options, so I changed the performRequest() call to this...
PHP
$ret = $t->performRequest(true, [CURLOPT_POST => count($postfields)]);
Bingo! Just like that it started to work!
In standard cURL the CURLOPT_POST option is implied if CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is set. Looks like in cURL Lite it is not. Manually setting this option to the count of the $postfields array will effectively make it 'true' if there is data to POST. On the other had if the array is empty, it will set it to 0 which is logically a 'false'.
-i
