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Opauth strategy for (Microsoft) Live Connect authentication.

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

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

Opauth is a multi-provider authentication framework for PHP.

Getting started

1. Install Opauth-Live:

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

   or

   composer require opauth/live

2. Create a Live Connect application at https://account.live.com/developers/applications

   • 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.

4. Direct user to http://path_to_opauth/live to authenticate

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

Strategy configuration

Required parameters:

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

Optional parameters: scope, state

References

• Live Connect developer guide

License

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