Socialite - Connecting Social Accounts

Thank you for clarifying those points.

So just to clarify further, once the user has authenticated/added to the system I won't have to re-request authentication to pull data from the social networks which in turn would update the systems database should I desire?

Basically what I'm trying to get at is, can I just access the users social data when I require once they have authenticated once on the system or do tokens etc expire?

TIA

I sent up a steppe rate table and link via has many with user id this way if data is missing, like Twitter and no email, doesn't matter.

Pretty simple for login via social, if comes back true I login via login by id as you'll have the user id in the table.

Can't edit via mobile but not steppe separate table.

The token received does not expire that is used for login and checks as the user allows access and the token is generated.

On login again the token is checked via api call to ensure proper access etc (true or false). At a login you probably would update the followers etc data or you can on a scheduled task.

Also take a look at the link below. You 'can' get Email from Twitter but you need to get your application whitelisted - which isn't difficult.

https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/account/verify_credentials

@sitesense wow. Just learned something new today!! Thank you

When using facebook - how can I use the scopes to get a users friends? Would I pass through 'user_friends' as a scope, if so how would I then obtain the information that's returned as when i do the following:

    {
        return Socialite::driver($provider)->scopes(['manage_pages', 'user_likes', 'user_friends'])->redirect();
    }

It just returns the standard information

So after re-reading my questions they make very little sense.

Im trying to obtain a users friend list from facebook. However from reading it would seem that all Socialite is good for is general authentication, not obtaining edge scopes (in facebook's terms) such as 'user_friends'.

Here's what i'd like to obtain: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/likes/

So my question is, has anyone managed to obtain information from any social network using Socialite using the 'scopes' method? It would seem from several StackOverflow comments and other posts elsewhere that Socialite simply doesn't allow extended scopes?

TIA

Hm...are you sure that it's not working? It might be because 'user_friends' doesn't give you the user's friends. It gives you a list of the friends that also use your app. I also believe that in order for you to get 'user_likes', your app needs to be approved by FB.

Hi @thomaskim, unfortunately the only information I get back from the authentication is the general user information.

When using the Graph debug this is what it returns:

{
  "data": [
  ],
  "summary": {
    "total_count": 346
  },
}

You are right about the 'user_likes' scope, but 'user_friends' does not require any further permissions as is approved by default.

Maybe this will help:

$this->socialite->driver($provider)->fields(['first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'gender', 'verified', 'friends'])->user()

Solution to connect users if they exist (not twitter) :

public function handleProviderCallback($provider)
    {

        $providerData = Socialite::driver($provider)->user();
        $user = User::where('provider_id', '=', $providerData->id)
            ->orWhere('email', '=' ,$providerData->email)
            ->first();
        if ($providerData->name == null){
            $nom="Unknown";
        } else {
            $nom=$providerData->name;
        }

        $SocialData = [
            'provider_id' => $providerData->id,
            'provider' => $provider,
            'email' => $providerData->email,
            'nom' => $nom,
            'status' => 1,
            'imagepath' => $providerData->avatar,
        ];

        if(!$user) {
            $user = User::create($SocialData);
        }

        $dbData = [
            'imagepath' => $user->imagepath,
            'email' => $user->email,
            'nom' => $user->nom,
            'provider' => $user->provider,
            'provider_id' => $user->provider_id,
        ];

        if (!empty(array_diff($SocialData, $dbData))) {
            $user->imagepath = $providerData->avatar;
            $user->email = $providerData->email;
            $user->nom = $nom;
            $user->provider = $provider;
            $user->provider_id = $providerData->id;
            $user->save();
        }

        Auth::login($user);

        return redirect($this->redirectPath())