Simple PHP REST server with secure user authentica

Question

I'm looking into writing an PHP REST API that would allow registered users interact with the web service from third party applications.

What I need the API to be able to do is:

• provide support for secure user authentication
• allow registered users to interact with the service from 3rd party applications
• this applications should be registered and approved on the system beforehand (similar to twitter)

I was wondering what would be a good framework or library to start from that provides a good basis for such a service.

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Answer 1

Sounds like an OAuthProvider would do what you describe. Here are some tutorials on how to make an OAuthProvider using PHP's OAuth module.

http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/55-Writing-an-OAuth-Provider-Service.html

http://djpate.com/2011/01/13/how-to-write-a-complete-oauth-provider-in-php5/

Answer 2

You could try one of the OAuth libraries for PHP listed on http://oauth.net/code