Feb 20th, 2007
The future and OpenID
After talking to a few people in #OpenID on irc.freenode.org last night, I finally decided I was going to get OpenID working with my own custom database library. The only full featured PHP library I could find was the one produced by JanRain. It’s not that I don’t like the features in the library, but the fact that it’s a PEAR style library, so it requires a few other PEAR libs that I absolutely refuse to use due to bloat, specifically PEAR::DB.
This caused a real issue for me. Function names are extremely different, along with how queries are performed, compared to my mysqli library. Sometime last month I tried to make a PEAR-style wrapper for my class, but for some reason it failed with the library. Well, last night I found the WordPress OpenID plugin. Knowing that WP runs it’s own MySQL class, I downloaded it and studied the wrapper. This allowed me to see what I had been doing wrong and get a system working before school started today.
Once I had it working, I wrote a simple class I call EasyOpenID. This class allows me to minimize the amount of code in JanRain’s consumer example to very few lines of code. I’ve decided I was going to release this library, so I converted it to FileStore, which is the default the library ships with, and packed it up. I am going to release it here to hopefully get some feedback. If the feedback is good, I will probably continue to expand on the class.
I will have a page up for the library later on tomorrow, but for now, download the file located here. This zip file contains the converted consumer example and my class. The class is released under the new BSD license, while the rest of the code is GPL. Please, provide me with any of your thoughts on the library. Even if you don’t use it on a real, live site, please just let me know what you thought.
Talking with the folks in #OpenID also got me invited to be on the first official OpenID podcast recording, no idea if I’ll be involved, but I’m listening. You will be able to obtain the podcast on http://idcast.org/ sometime tomorrow night or on Thursday. I hope all goes well. Hopefully this new podcast will provide a great resource for developers looking to learn and expand on OpenID.
Cody, you’re a dumb piece of shit
Really, I don’t think that, I just wanted to give you some traffic
Thanks for the hint a question though….
if I dont have an iPhone connected (for test purposes) what output should I get from running tool?
I currently get permission denied is this correct?
Thanks
Warning: require_once(Auth/OpenID/Consumer.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
Does anyone know where to get these files? Can’t find them in the zip…and can’t find it in the documentation.
Or does anyone know an openphp-library with documentation und which is working?
You need to download the the PHP-OpenID library from http://www.openidenabled.com/php-openid/. My class just makes it easier to use.
I’m having a slight problem, I’m getting directed to my provider, authenticating, then back again but get the following error:
Fatal error: return_to must be a string; see NEWS file for upgrading notes. in /home/.peony/krisnorthfield/visualibiza.co.uk/openid/Auth/OpenID/Consumer.php on line 409
I’ve tried several things to no avail. Any clues?
Kris, to correct your issues and the next one you’ll get after you correct that one
try this:
EasyOpenID.php
Line 77 REMOVE
$this->response = $consumer->complete($_GET);Line 77 ADD
$return_to = substr($_GET['openid_return_to'], 0, strpos($_GET['openid_return_to'], "?"));$this->response = $consumer->complete($return_to);finish_auth.php
Line 37 REMOVE
$sreg = $response->extensionResponse('sreg');
Line 37 ADD$sreg = $response->extensionResponse('sreg', true);
Note: The $return_to line in EasyOpenID.php is one line, but the blog cuts it off, make sure you don’t have a stray carriage return.
in 127.0.0.1, I get the following error:
Fatal error: Define Auth_OpenID_RAND_SOURCE as null to continue with an insecure random number generator. in C:\AppServ\www\php-openid\Auth\OpenID\CryptUtil.php on line 52
and in http://www.la.ubu.ac.th/consumer
I get the following error:
Authentication Error.
Warning: require_once(Auth/OpenID/Consumer.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
Does anyone know where to get these files? Can’t find them in the zip…and can’t find it in the documentation.
Or does anyone know an openphp-library with documentation und which is working?
Hi, Cody!
Your PHP class looks much a lot lighter than the JanRain’s original, so I was considering to use it in my project.
However I ran into a small problem – simple registration extension (sreg) doesn’t work.
In request params there’s this:
[openid_ext0_optional] => email[openid_ns_ext0] => http://openid.net/sreg/1.0
But it should be:
[openid_sreg_optional] => email[openid_ns_sreg] => http://openid.net/sreg/1.0
And I can’t find, where does this “ext0″ come from.
The original /consumer works fine, EasyOpenID not.
Could you, please, take a look?
I get the following error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /var/www/vhosts/jaystockman.com/httpdocs/openid/EasyOpenID.php on line 8
HELP
I get the same error as Jay
[...] EasyOpenID [...]
[...] EasyOpenID [...]
[...] EasyOpenID [...]
when i add! it stated need url2.0 and for this onl 1.1
[...] EasyOpenID [...]
Hey there,
you’re writing that you’ll add the script to the library – meanwhile we can use the direct link to v1.0. Now that this article is quite old, I wonder where the library is, to see if this direct link is outdated or not.
feel free to answer me via mail, if you find the time. Thanks,
bye
Hi,
You are correct, this library is slightly outdated. I have not been keeping it updated unfortunately :/. If someone would like to, feel free to email me.
i need to login to my yahoo account by useing openid
[...] EasyOpenID [...]
google
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