[eluser]JamieBarton[/eluser]
Hi there,
Cal me stupid, but I haven't quite got it clear about the whole Sign in with Twitter, Facebook malarky. I have signed into websites using Facebook and Twitter many times before, however, it's once you're signed in I don't then follow, from a storing user data point of view.
I want to start using Twitter with Code Igniter soon, for users to be able to sign into my website with Twitter, however my site will be a simple message board and photo upload, with leader boards etc..
My confusion begins on storing the data of these users, without Twitter, I'd have a users table, and when I insert a comment, upload a photo etc.. It will carry normally an ID, as I'm using a relational database using IDs, but, how do I do this with Twitter? Do I need a users table at all? Does anything about the user be saved to the site.
When I'm uploading a photo, what do I do about the signed in via Twitter accounts? How do I store their name, do I store their name? (Because they could change it later, making future queries invalid), or store a Twitter ID?
I'm just not sure of how the whole sign in with OAuth, Open ID actually works in terms of storing user information.
Please hopefully someone will be able to tell me a complete outline of the process of people using your site using one of these websites.
Regards,
Thanks for all your help in advance.
Jamie
