opauth/live

Live Connect strategy for Opauth

Opauth-Live

[Opauth][1] strategy for (Microsoft) Live Connect authentication., _(*1)

Confusingly, Live Connect is (was) also known as:, _(*2)

• Windows Live
• Microsoft Passport
• Live ID
• MSN ID

Opauth is a multi-provider authentication framework for PHP., _(*3)

Getting started

1. Install Opauth-Live:, _(*4)

   cd path_to_opauth/Strategy
   git clone git://github.com/opauth/live.git Live
   

   or, _(*5)

   composer require opauth/live
   

2. Create a Live Connect application at https://account.live.com/developers/applications, _(*6)

   • Once application is created, be sure to go to My apps > API Settings to define your redirect domain to be http://path_to_opauth/live/oauth2callback.

3. Configure Opauth-Live strategy., _(*7)

4. Direct user to http://path_to_opauth/live to authenticate, _(*8)

5. If email field is needed, add wl.emails to scope parameter in LiveStrategy.php (line 38). E.g., 'scope' => 'wl.basic wl.emails'., _(*9)

Strategy configuration

Required parameters:, _(*10)

<?php
'Live' => array(
  'client_id' => 'YOUR CLIENT ID',
  'client_secret' => 'YOUR CLIENT SECRET'
)

Optional parameters: scope, state, _(*11)

References

• Live Connect developer guide

License

Opauth-GitHub is MIT Licensed
Copyright © 2012 U-Zyn Chua (http://uzyn.com), _(*12)