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OpenID and FB Connect Tutorial

A simple question actually, I looked around the Internet, probably over the past few days for several hours a day, looking for solid information about the integration of OpenID and Facebook Connect on the website.

I saw pop-ups of the same name like Janrain offering their solution, but I see many sites like the Invision Power Board forums and even here in StackOverflow using different solutions.

The main two logins that we want to accept on our website are Facebook and Twitter. I was really looking for a tutorial, or at least a guide on incorporating this feature into a PHP website.

If anyone has any information or any pointers that would be good.

Thanks!

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At the end, I found the following links:

For Facebook's PHP SDK (v3.0), the following link helps wonders with explained tutorials and downloadable examples:
http://thinkdiff.net/facebook-connect/php-sdk-3-0-graph-api-base-facebook-connect-tutorial/

For more information and how easy it is to set up your facebook app, this link should also help:
http://www.joeyrivera.com/2010/facebook-graph-api-app-easy-w-php-sdk/

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I would start with official documents. They are very good.

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/sign_in_with_twitter

Twitter alone is a little dumb, but its still pretty easy to follow.

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For Twitter, just use your simple JavaScript SDK:

But I really would not have implemented these services myself. For example. Twitter anywhere is probably painless to customize, but then you rely on your JavaScript. That was before, and then your page takes a long time to load or not to load at all.

I have not tried the new Facebook APIs, but 2 years ago I wasted a week of my life trying to integrate my API, and the general idea I got is if you don’t know someone on Facebook who can check in, put in some journal or let us know why this API is not responding, as it suggested, you are just on your own.

We use the Janrain engage product (free). It works really, really well.

Working with all these services directly is the royal (!) PITA. They do not work, they change how they work, they behave incorrectly - well, to pass them on to someone who seems to know all the inputs and outputs. In our case, Janrain.

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There is a copy and paste of the Facebook login solution. It is also free. It is developed by LaunchBit. You can try this.

http://toolkit.launchbit.com

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