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How to Use Omniauth to Authenticate your Users

How to Use Omniauth to Authenticate your Users

I hate signing up for websites. I’ve already signed up for so many, using different usernames, that going back to one of them and trying to remember my credentials is sometimes impossible. These days, most sites have begun offering alternative ways to sign up, by allowing you to use your Facebook, Twitter or even your Google account. Creating such an integration sometimes feels like a long and arduous task. But fear not, Omniauth is here to help.

Omniauth allows you to easily integrate more than sixty authentication providers, including Facebook, Google, Twitter and GitHub. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain how to integrate these authentication providers into your app.

Easy Authentication with CodeIgniter
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Easy Authentication with CodeIgniter

In this in depth “screencast of the week,” I’ll take you through the process of building an authentication system with CodeIgniter. Need to restrict access to certain parts of your website to only those who’ve logged in? This tutorial will teach you how!

How to Authenticate Users With Twitter OAuth

How to Authenticate Users With Twitter OAuth

Beginning August 16th, Twitter will no longer support the basic authentication protocol for its platform. That means the only way to authenticate users will be through a Twitter application. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Twitter as your one-click authentication system, just as we did with Facebook.