PS vs PHP

gistfile1.txt

        public function getAccessToken($user,$pass)
        {

                $url = SonyCI::$host ."/oauth2/token";
                # documentation say Password, but that fails password doesn't
                $data = [
                        "client_id" => $this->config->client_id,
                        "client_secret" => $this->config->client_secret,
                        "grant_type" => "password" ];

                $userPass = base64_encode($user.':'.$pass);

                $contextArray = ["http"=> [
                        "method" => "POST",
                        'ignore_errors' => true,
                        "header" => [
                                "Content-Type: application/json" ,
                                "Authorization: Basic " . $userPass
                        ],
                        "content" => json_encode($data)
                ] ];
                $context = stream_context_create($contextArray);
                $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
                $resobj = json_decode($result);

                if (property_exists($resobj,"access_token"))
                {
                        $this->config->access_token = $resobj->access_token;
                        $this->config->expires = $resobj->expires_in + time();
                        $this->config->refresh_token = $resobj->refresh_token;
                        return true;
                }
                return false;

        }
        
        [bool] GetAccessToken($user,$password)
        {
                $url = [SonyCI]::host + "/oauth2/token"
                $data = @{
                        "client_id"=$this.config.client_id;
                        "client_secret"=$this.config.client_secret;
                        "grant_type"="password"
                }

                $pair = "$($user):$($password)"
                $encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair))
                $basicAuthValue = "Basic $encodedCreds"

                $headers = @{ "Content-Type"="application/json";
                        "Authorization"=$basicAuthValue
                }

                $resobj=Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Post' -Uri $url -Headers $headers -Body ($data | convertto-json)


                if ($resobj.PSObject.Properties.name -match "access_token") {
                        $this.config.access_token = $resobj.access_token
                        $this.config.expires = (get-date).AddSeconds($resobj.expires_in)
                        $this.config.refresh_token = $resobj.refresh_token
                        return $true
                }
                return $false
        }  

If I had to describe what using powershell is most like I'd say php.