2012-04-07T22:42:44-07:00 http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash dd+atom1@davedash.com 2006-10-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://davedash.com/2006/10/03/openid <p><a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a> is a wonderful concept. If I visit a web site, Acme Widgets, I only need to supply a <acronym title="Universal Resource Locator">URL</acronym> that belongs to me in order to log in. The web site at that <acronym title="URL">URL</acronym> will provide a place where I can authorize Acme Widgets to log me in with this id.</p> <p>The benefit of this type of identity system is now you don't need to create new username's and passwords for each site you'd like to use. We initially began <a href="http://reviewsby.us/">reviewsby.us</a> with just <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a> for that reason. Now we can target places like <a href="http://livejournal.com/">livejournal</a> and make it exceptionally easy for their users to register with our site.</p> <p>As of this writing, and even more robust system is being developed, <a href="http://whobar.org/">whobar</a>. <a href="http://whobar.org/">Whobar</a> supports multiple identification sites, not just <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a>. Rather than walking through explaining how to do a sign-in system that integrates <a href="http://openid.net/">OpenID</a>, I'll direct people to <a href="http://whobar.org/">whobar</a>. It is in the plans for <a href="http://reviewsby.us/">reviewsby.us</a> to integrate <a href="http://whobar.org/">whobar</a> and once that happens you can expect a shiny tutorial and/or plugin for symfony.</p>