Zend framework user authentication integration with Twitter and Facebook

Question

Is there any script based on ZF, which supports normal user signup/login system, along with user authentication throuh Twitter and Facebook.

Answer 1

Don't know about twitter but you can use the Facebook PHP SDK easily enough in a ZF project. There's an excellent example in the SDK "examples" folder.

My approach is to

• Add the Facebook object as an application resource plugin, eg

---

require_once 'facebook.php';

class My_Application_Resource_Facebook extends Zend_Application_Resource_ResourceAbstract
{
    public function init()
    {
        $facebook = new Facebook($this->getOptions());

        Zend_Registry::set('facebook', $facebook);

        return $facebook;
    }
}

---

• Check the Facebook session and user in your Bootstrap.php file, adding it to Zend_Auth if applicable
• Include the Facebook JavaScript SDK in your layout
• Use the Login Button to authenticate your users

Because the Facebook auth token is cookie based, both your server-side code and client-side JS can access it.

Edit Twitter libraries here - http://dev.twitter.com/pages/libraries#php