As more and more users have existing accounts from major OpenID/OAuth
providers, it's becoming increasingly important to allow them to port those
identities elsewhere, enabling a simpler, seamless registration process.
They no longer have to remember individual usernames and passwords for every
site they visit, and the management of that authentication is done elsewhere,
as well as password management.
Proprietary authentication is starting to become a hinderance to signing new
users up, and having the functionality to use a Google, Twitter, or Facebook (I
realize this is not OpenID) account to get people in quickly is becoming a
necessity for a standard web application.
Currently two yii extensions exist that provide wrappers for LightOpenID -
eopenid and loid, and there is also an extension for an OpenID selector -
simpleopenidselector.
These provide most of the necessary code for OpenId, the rest of the work would
be providing the logic that allows someone to substitute OpenID authentication
for entering a password, or linking an OpenID after a user already has a
username and password on the site.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by JJHayes...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2011 at 7:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
JJHayes...@gmail.comon 17 Mar 2011 at 7:05