How to fetch account data from a provider with LightOpenID? - php

Question

I'm having problems with a small OpenID-library called LightOpenID
.
I can authenticate to almost all providers, but I don't know how to fetch the data from the provider. I only get Array(), even with print_r().

Answer 1

You need to call getAttributes() after $openid->validate() not before.
Remember:
Note that it does not guarantee that any of the required/optional parameters will be present

Answer 2

This is how I use it. This is the file openid.php in the folder lightopenid. In the class make the following additional functions -
class LightOpenID
{
public $returnUrl
, $required = array()
, $optional = array()
, $verify_peer = null
, $capath = null
, $cainfo = null;
// these are the variables which store the data about the user...
public function ret_fname() { return $this->data['openid_ext1_value_namePerson_first']; }
public function ret_lname() { return $this->data['openid_ext1_value_namePerson_last']; }
public function ret_email() { return $this->data['openid_ext1_value_contact_email']; }
public function ret_lang() { return $this->data['openid_ext1_value_pref_language']; }
}
Now make your file example login.php which is called when you want to authenticate. There might be several copies of this file for different authentication domains etc.
<?php
# Logging in with Google accounts requires setting special identity, so this example shows how to do it.
session_start();
require 'lightopenid/openid.php';
include_once('config.php'); // initial setting file
try {
$openid = new LightOpenID; // akshat - declared an object of class lightopenid.. this is listed in openid.php
if(!$openid->mode) {
if(isset($_GET['login'])) {
$openid->identity = 'https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/site-xrds?hd=YourDomain.in'; //this can be changed as you know...
$openid->required = array('namePerson/friendly', 'contact/email' , 'contact/country/home', 'namePerson/first', 'pref/language', 'namePerson/last'); // akshat - line added by me from after reading from the net....
header('Location: ' . $openid->authUrl());
}
?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" language="javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
document.form.submit();
});
</script>
<form name="form" action="?login" method="post"> </form>
<?php
} elseif($openid->mode == 'cancel') {
echo 'User has canceled authentication for Your Domain !';
} else { // FETCH USER INFO HERE
$fname = $openid->ret_fname(); // fetching user first name...
$lname = $openid->ret_lname(); // fetching user last name...
$email = $openid->ret_email(); // fetching user email...
$lang = $openid->ret_lang(); // fetching user language...
session_start();
// use it as required. I set them in session !
$_SESSION['admin']['emailID'] = $email; //put email id in session.
$_SESSION['admin']['fname'] = $fname; //put first name also in session.
$_SESSION['admin']['lname'] = $lname; //put last name also in session.
$rurl = $_SESSION['redirect']; // you can ignore this. Go to your own page now...
header("Location:$rurl"); // Go back to the calling application !
}
} catch(ErrorException $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>