Wow. That was super helpful. I wasn't familiar with the array_chunk function. Really helpful. This is the code that ended up working for me.
Code:
$users_array = array();
$i = 0;
$tw_user_array = $twitteroauth->get('friends/ids');
$chunks = array_chunk($tw_user_array->ids, 100);
foreach($chunks as $chunk) {
$cs = implode(",", $chunk);
$parameters = array('user_id' => "$cs");
$user_objects = $twitteroauth->get('users/lookup', $parameters);
foreach($user_objects as $tw_object) {
$tw_array = array ("id" => $tw_object->id,
"name" => $tw_object->name,
"screen_name" => $tw_object->screen_name
);
array_push($users_array, $tw_array);
}
}
return $users_array;
}