The following function gives a validation error instead of the token:
failed to validate oAuth signature and token
function request_token()
{
// Set url
$url = $this->site.$this->request_token_path; // http://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token
// Params to pass to twitter and create signature
$params['oauth_consumer_key'] = $this->consumerKey;
$params['oauth_token'] = '';
$params['oauth_nonce'] = SHA1(time());
$params['oauth_timestamp'] = time();
$params['oauth_signature_method'] = $this->signatureMethod; // HMAC-SHA1;
$params['oauth_version'] = $this->version; // 1.0
ksort($params);
//print "<pre>"; print_r($params); print "</pre>";
// Create Signature
$concatenatedParams = '';
foreach($params as $k => $v){
$concatenatedParams .= "{$k}={$v}&";
}
$concatenatedParams = substr($concatenatedParams,0,-1);
$signatureBaseString = "POST&".urlencode($url)."&".urlencode($concatenatedParams);
$params['oauth_signature'] = base64_encode(hash_hmac('SHA1', $signatureBaseString, $this->secret."&", TRUE));
// Do cURL
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
$exec = curl_exec ($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $exec;
//print "<pre>"; print_r($info); print "</pre>";
}