HybridAuth Integration

cookieman768

I was thinking that adding social logins as a core feature via HybridAuth (https://github.com/hybridauth/hybridauth) would be a great idea. They have support for a lot of different OAuth platforms and supporting a new one is rather simple. It would allow for out of the box social authentication. I'll look into how hard this would be to implement.

clarkwinkelmann

Flarum is already using such a library, though not that exact one. It's using the League OAuth client http://oauth2-client.thephpleague.com/ Which could be described exactly as the one you suggest.

I suppose using HybridAuth (via an extension) would require digging deeper into Flarum events, as Flarum auth extensibility is currently expected to be done through league-compatible clients. For example the Flagrow Telegram extensions creates a custom League+Flarum compliant driver for Telegram. And you might not get much of an advantage as most popular services already exist as League-compatible drivers.

If you're suggesting switching from League to HybridAuth in Flarum core I suggest you open an issue on GitHub so it can be tracked ?

cookieman768

clarkwinkelmann gotcha. I didn’t dig too deep since I was on my phone. I’ll take a better look when I get access to a desktop.

Edit: I just looked at League OAuth, they do have a lot more providers. I somehow never stumbled upon them when I was looking and found Hybridauth instead.