Create GitHub Issue in PHP with File_Get_Contents using GitHub API

create_issue.php

<?
	//personal auth token from your github.com account.  doing this will eliminate having to use oauth everytime
	$token = "zzzzzzzzYourPersonalGithubAccessTokenzzzzzzzz";
	
	//post url, https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/
	$url = "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/some_repo/issues?access_token=" . $token;
	
	//request details, removing slashes and sanitize content
	$title = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes("Test Title''\s"), ENT_QUOTES);
	$body = htmlspecialchars(stripslashes("Test Body'\'$%'s"), ENT_QUOTES);
	
	//build json post
	$post = '{"title": "'. $title .'","body": "'. $body .'"}';

	//set file_get_contents header info
	$opts = [
		'http' => [
				'method' => 'POST',
				'header' => [
						'User-Agent: PHP',
						'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
				],
				'content' => $post
		]
	];

	//initiate file_get_contents
	$context = stream_context_create($opts);
	
	//make request
	$content = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
	
	//decode response to array
	$response_array = json_decode($content, true);	
	
	//issue number
	$number = $response_array['number'];

	echo "Issue " . $number . " generated.";

?>

This is great, thanks! FYI, github is deprecating use of the access_token in the url.
Instead you should add auth to the post header:

$opts = [
	'http' => [
			'method' => 'POST',
			'header' => [
					'User-Agent: PHP',
					'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
					'Authorization: token '.$token,
			],
			'content' => $post
	]
];

I'm planning to use this to auto create issues from a form and realized it's best create a 'bot account', so the personal auth token only has write access to specific repos rather than all of main account. As mentioned, not an issue when only used on private repos).

thanks for the updates looking forward to seeing your form solution