What information can be pulled from the new user's social account?
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Hi,
We're investigating integrating login by social media account on a 5.6.3.3 site and this package seems like the right tool for the job. I'm curious: what information can be pulled from the new user's social media account? For example, if a user signs up with Facebook can we grab their avatar from FB? Or if LinkedIn could we grab the bio text? If so, is it possible to re-pull that information later on, or is it a one-time operation when the user registers on the c5 site? Sorry if these are obvious answers... I don't know or I wouldn't ask!
Thanks!
We're investigating integrating login by social media account on a 5.6.3.3 site and this package seems like the right tool for the job. I'm curious: what information can be pulled from the new user's social media account? For example, if a user signs up with Facebook can we grab their avatar from FB? Or if LinkedIn could we grab the bio text? If so, is it possible to re-pull that information later on, or is it a one-time operation when the user registers on the c5 site? Sorry if these are obvious answers... I don't know or I wouldn't ask!
Thanks!
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Social login easily supports some basic information:
firstName,lastName,photoURL,gender,birthday,region,avatar
you can get them every time the user login (also updating them), but you will need some basic changes on the plugin, and I can assist you on this.
You will basically have to add lines like
$ui->setAttribute('gender',$user_profile->gender );
on certain points, based on the user attributes you have created.
The plugin also enables a function to query each provider api directly.
You can check the hybrid auth library example here:
http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/userguide/Access_IDps_APIs.html...
Let me know if you have any other question
Regards
Nicola