Generic use of the library

Introduction

In theses examples, your provider must accept common openId Connect protocol.

The project organization is set like that for the example :

- /src : directory with your scripts
  | - authorization.php
  | - callback.php
  | - logout.php
- /vendor : externals library
- composer.json
- composer.lock

You must known :

  • the discovery url of your provider

  • the cllient_id

  • the client_secret

Authorization

Create a script authorization.php in src. This script need to load the vendor autoload.php script.

For authorization, you don't need to authentificate your app

The user is redirect to the provider login page.

Callback

callback.php is the script in /src directory you have created to deal with the callback after user authentication on the provider. It will be used to get user informations.

At this point, you can authorize the user to your application with the userinfo you get.

You can leave the tokens in the session. But, if you get the refresh_token, it's recommended to save it a database to use it for your personnal reasons.

Refresh token

You need the refresh_token get in your callback script.

In the example, the refresh_token is get from the session.

You must received new access_token and new id_token. If a new refresh_token is given, you have to save it.

Revoke token or logout

In theses examples, the tokens are get from the session.

You can revoke :

  • access_token

  • refresh_token

It's recommended to do the logout process with the id_token.

Revoke tokens

Logout

Logout use the session to find the id_token. You can give it manually in first argument.

You can specify a logout url for callback. It must been known by the provider.

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