Facebook Authentication
jezza101
I came across your site today whilst exploring the possibility of
allowing people to login into a site using their facebook login. The
idea being that people are pretty unlikely to register on a small site
but if they already have a login they can use then great.
If I understand correctly, this is what you have done! I also had
the idea of creating a small facebook app to extend a site I was
thinking of creating. So its nice to see someone has done these
things and has shared the code - good stuff :)!
I have also now discovered OpenID, so maybe this is worth trying
too!
Anyway, I have grabbed the source code and have started looking
through but I suspect its going to take some time to work out! I was
just wondering if you had or perhaps could document a few getting
started steps, even if it just gives me an idea of where to look in
the code. Have you already blogged any such details?
I am working with an open source content managment system (e107) and
would like to provide community plugins that allow facebook (and
OpenID) login capability which I will eventually use on my site (if I
get that far!).
Presumably once a new user logs in with one of these existing IDs your
newscloud app creates a user in its own user table. When the user
returns and logs in again the two are matched up so you know its the
same person?
Any tips or getting started guide or anything lol appreciated. In the
meantime I guess Im gonna trawl the code ;)!
Cheers.
Newscloud
on the source code.