How do I integrate OAuth client authentication alongside Laravel standard authentication? - php

Question

I've been Googling for quite some time now for some ideas or a guide on how to integrate OAuth (v1.0 & v2.0) alongside the standard Laravel 4 Eloquent authentication driver.
Essentially, I'd like to be able for site visitors to create an account via their existing Google, Facebook, or Twitter accounts, or via the standard email/password authentication. Certain user information such as email, first and last names, and avatar are important for me to have stored in a unified users table.
So far the projects I've looked at seem to support only OAuth and do away with the standard method. These projects include: eloquent-oauth, and oauth-4-laravel.
At this point, I might just roll my own solution, but I'm hoping some of you guys might have better advice for me!
TL;DR: I'm stuck at trying to find a simple and secure way to allow OAuth and standard Eloquent user authentication in Laravel. Halp.

Answer 1

I think the easiest way would be to use this service provider that you mention "artdarek/oauth-4-laravel" and then store the values as usual and log them in.
/**
* Login user with facebook
*
* #return void
*/
public function loginWithFacebook() {
// get data from input
$code = Input::get( 'code' );
// get fb service
$fb = OAuth::consumer( 'Facebook' );
// check if code is valid
// if code is provided get user data and sign in
if ( !empty( $code ) ) {
// This was a callback request from facebook, get the token
$token = $fb->requestAccessToken( $code );
// Send a request with it
$result = json_decode( $fb->request( '/me' ), true );
// store new user or login if user exists
$validator = Validator::make($result, array(
'email'=>'required|email|unique:users'
));
if ($validator->passes()) {
# Save user in DB
$user = new User;
$user->username = $result['name'];
$user->email = $result['email'];
$user->save();
}else {
$user = User::findByUsernameOrFail($result['name']);
}
Auth::login($user);
}
// if not ask for permission first
else {
// get fb authorization
$url = $fb->getAuthorizationUri();
// return to facebook login url
return Redirect::to( (string)$url );
}
}