On Oct 26, 9:34 pm, Chris Babcock cbabc...@kolonelpanic.org wrote:
I authenticate with twitter oauth using apopupfrom my site. When the
authentication is done, twitter redirects the user to my site again.
The user then has my site both in the original browser window, and in
thepopup.
One way of formulating your problem would be How can I avoid having two
windows open? The simplest answer would be, Don't open a second
window.
I want to close thepopupautomatically, so the user don't have to. I
do this with the following:
?php if (strlen($_GET['oauth_token']) 0) { echo scriptself.close
()/script; } ?
The problem is that when using the above code, the authentication
don't seem to work. When trying to tweet I get this:
/statuses/update.xml Could not authenticate you.
When I don't use the above code, and thereby force the user to close
thepopupmanually if he don't want it open, everything works fine.
Can someone explain this to me, and help with how I can auto close the
popupwithout messing with the authentication?
PHP is not my language of choice, but that looks like a scoping issue.
When you close the window with JavaScript, the authentication data you
obtained is lost when the window containing it is closed. You need to
persist the data whatever that means for your application - save a
cookie, submit data or (Ugh!) set a global - before you close the
window
Chris Babcock
Thanks for your tips Chris.
The thing is that the session variables are saved. I'm using Abrahams
oauth script (http://twitter.abrah.am/) and when I check against the
$_SESSION['oauth_state'], it tells me I'm still logged in (I have
connected the visibility of the post to twitter form to this
variable, which I only see when I'm logged in, and it works as
intended).
An addition to the previous description. When I don't use the script,
but close the popup manually, I can still post to twitter in chrome
and firefox. I can however not post in internet explorer, there I get
the message /statuses/update.xml Could not authenticate you. In all
three browsers $_SESSION['oauth_state'] indicate that I'm in fact are
logged in.
What can be different in this scenario between using chrome/firefox or
ie?
Thanks
