I think the original point of this thread has been lost a bit, which was about the fact that there aren't enough sites using OpenID as a consumer ( i.e. offering "log in using your OpenID"), rather than ways to run your own OpenID server (of which there are countless).
I think I like the idea of the BBC offering an OpenID login option, rather than the BBC turning into yet another OpenID provider. In response to James - I don't use PHP, but have been using OpenID (purely as a consumer) on the rails-powered twitterfeed.com. It actually saved me some hassles, since I don't have to worry about anyone's usernames and passwords. For php, this may be worth a look: http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/libraries/php Cheers, Mario. On 6/10/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I use a very simplified version of an OpenID server for my OpenID requirements - just one flat-file PHP script in which you define your variables such as password, username etc. That script's running on christopher.woods.name and you can download it from http://siege.org/projects/phpMyID - the simplest way is to have a domain and run it in the root (because of course OpenID uses whatever address the script is located at, so if you ran it on james.cridland.net/openid that's what would show up). OpenID also seemingly doesn't like mod_rewritten domain names, and will always use the original url (I tried to run it on my kerblam.co.uk domain but it always showed blog.infinitus.co.uk, which could be a limitation of the PHP-only implementation or the way the version I'm using is scripted, but I had that .name domain which I purchased for no reason but subsequently found its use :) There's also more comprehensive OpenID solutions which use SQL databases, support multiple users etc... More info http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Run_your_own_identity_server and http://gentoo-wiki.com/Host_your_own_OpenID_server are two good places to start. ------------------------------ *From:* James Cridland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 10 June 2007 11:58 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk *Subject:* Re: [backstage] openID on the BBC I really want to understand how OpenID works from a login point of view. If anyone can easily point me to some PHP code that allows a user to log in via an OpenID, I'd dearly like to have a play with it for mediauk.com - I've failed, so far, to find anything that my little brain understands quite yet. (OpenID was on the Virgin Radio milestone map as a 'would be nice' - as a consumer, rather than a provider). -- http://james.cridland.net/ On 6/5/07, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 14:25 +0100 5/6/07, Brendan Quinn wrote: > >Thanks Christopher, that's interesting. > > > >We've been thinking along similar lines in some initial brainstorming > >(although I'm not au fait with Simon W's latest work) -- if you think > of > >OpenID as an "identification framework" rather than an "authentication > >framework" then some possibilities open up. > > > >Keep the ideas coming, please :-) > > > >Brendan. > >PS to be clear, Simon has been commissioned to write a report on how > the > >BBC might use OpenID in the future. We're not necessarily committing to > >it or endorsing it as a technology, though. > > > > Swiftly followed by a report on the BBC's use of open source > software, open protocols, open formats, etc. > > Gordo > > -- > "Think Feynman"///////// > http://pobox.com/~gordo/ <http://pobox.com/%7Egordo/> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >
