: Utilising Open ID and third party auth services I'm planning to utilise a third party authorisation service in order to allow users to sign in with their google/facebook accounts etc. In particular
I'm planning to utilise a third party authorisation service in order to allow users to sign in with their google/facebook accounts etc.
In particular I am aiming to use the Yii extension here-
www.yiiframework.com/extension/hybridauth/
I am uncertain of one point, however, and I'm hoping to clear this up before investing time into implementing this. How will I email a user? Are there third part API functions that I can use for this that vary between third party providers?
It occurs to me that this must be the same for the StackExchange network as I frequently receive email from the site and only sign in with my google credentials. However, upon checking my profile I can see my email address is listed, so I'm no longer sure.
Is anyone able to confirm how this works? If no-one is aware I will test this by registering a new account solely through google and check for emailed notifications.
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Both OpenId and OAuth (the most widely used remote login schemes) send the email address of the user to the site upon successful login.
I implement both OpenId and OAuth on my website. I use OpenId for Google and OAuth for Facebook (which doesn't support OpenId). When the user logs in, I examine the data I get back from the login provider. This data comes in URL parameters. I store that information (including email address) in the database at that point. Here is a question that I asked that shows what data is available to you when a user logs in using either OAuth or OpenId: stackoverflow.com/questions/15816359/what-data-can-be-obtained-about-a-user-who-logs-in-with-facebook-oauth
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