Re: [tlug] Can I get someone to hold my hand with all this oAuth stuff?

[Shmuel Fomberg <owner@example.com>]

Hi Martin.

I wrote something that used the Facebook API, and used this page:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/

forgot that it is oauth, just sent requests step-by-step following the 
server-flow, and it simply worked.
If you follow the flow, then you should probably request offline-access, 
and set the access-token in your site.

Or maybe go for the client flow, and do all the posting work with JS? 
could be easier.
(haven't used that)

Shmuel.

On 2011/09/12 18:31, Martin G wrote:
> TLUG,
>
> A little while back, I had this fantastic idea for setting up a PHP
> script that would take some text and post it to Facebook, Twitter, and
> to a mailing list, thus consolidating all the different ways I
> communicate to people with various groups I run. (Not fantastic in the
> sense that this is a new idea, but fantastic in the sense that if I
> could set this it up, it would save me a lot of work in the long run)
>
> However, I'm running into a lot of problems with the whole oAuth
> process and getting my apps authenticated for Facebook and Twitter.
>
> I don't think the problems I'm having are big, and all the tutorials
> make it seem like it should be easy. However, the reality has been
> much more fuzzy.
>
> Ordinarily, in a situation like this, I would try some stuff, narrow
> down the issues to a question that I can post here or Stack Overflow
> or somewhere, and then hopefully based on that answer progress to a
> solution or the next clear problem.
>
> However, this whole process is kind of nebulous. I've got a bunch of
> PHP scripts that should work, I have registered my apps, so they
> should be authenticated, I have a pile of layers that in theory should
> be set up, and yet it's not working. Somewhere. Somehow.
>
> I feel this could be sorted in an hour or less, so long as one knew
> where to look.
>
> What I'm wondering if there is someone in the Tokyo area who has
> experience with authenticating apps with Twitter and/or Facebook who I
> could sit down with and give me a bit of a lesson and assistance. I
> mean, interaction doesn't always have to be by email, does it?
>
> Time would be paid for. Coffee would be bought. Good times by all.
>
> Can anyone give me a little assistance in a face to face manner?