Social Authentication

We currently support the following providers to perform login as well as to link an existing account:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google
• Instagram
• Amazon
• LinkedIn (deprecated, it's not working with the OAuth 2.0 provider. They switched to OpenID-Connect.)
• Github

Please contact us if you need to support another provider.

The main source code for social integration is provided by 'CakeDC/auth' plugin

Setup

By default social login is disabled, to enable you need to create the Facebook/Twitter applications you want to use and update your file config/users.php with:

//This enable social login (authentication)
'Users.Social.login' => true,
//This is the required config to setup facebook.
'OAuth.providers.facebook.options.clientId' => 'YOUR APP ID',
'OAuth.providers.facebook.options.clientSecret' => 'YOUR APP SECRET',
//This is the required config to setup twitter
'OAuth.providers.twitter.options.clientId' => 'YOUR APP ID',
'OAuth.providers.twitter.options.clientSecret' => 'YOUR APP SECRET',

By default the social login validation is enabled for existing accounts. First social login attempt to an existing account will require additional email validation before it can be used. If you trust the providers you are using you can disable this feature globally in your config/users.php file:

'Users.Social.validateSocialAccount' => false,

Alternatively you can also skip this validation for some providers that you trust in your config/users.php file:

'OAuth.providers.facebook.skipSocialAccountValidation' => true,

Check optional configs at config/users.php inside 'OAuth' key

You can also change the default settings for social authenticate in your config/users.php file:

    'Users.Email' => [
        //determines if the user should include email
        'required' => true,
        //determines if registration workflow includes email validation
        'validate' => true,
    ],
    'Users.Social' => [
        //enable social login
        'login' => false,
    ],
    'Users.Key' => [
        'Session' => [
            //session key to store the social auth data
            'social' => 'Users.social',
        ],
        //form key to store the social auth data
        'Form' => [
            'social' => 'social'
        ],
        'Data' => [
            //data key to store email coming from social networks
            'socialEmail' => 'info.email',
        ],
    ],

If email is required and the social network does not return the user email then the user will be required to input the email. Additionally, validation could be enabled, in that case the user will be asked to validate the email before be able to login. There are some cases where the email address already exists onto database, if so, the user will receive an email and will be asked to validate the social account in the app. It is important to take into account that the user account itself will remain active and accessible by other ways (other social network account or username/password).

In most situations you would not need to change any Oauth setting besides applications details.

For new facebook apps you must use the graphApiVersion 2.8 or greater:

'OAuth.providers.facebook.options.graphApiVersion' => 'v2.8',

User Helper

You can use the helper included with the plugin to create Facebook/Twitter buttons:

In templates

$this->User->facebookLogin();

$this->User->twitterLogin();

We recommend the use of Bootstrap Social in order to automatically apply styles to buttons. Anyway you can always add your own style to the buttons.

Social Authentication was inspired by UseMuffin/OAuth2 library.

Custom username field

In your customized users table, add the SocialBehavior with the following configuration:

$this->addBehavior('CakeDC/Users.Social', [
    'username' => 'email'
]);

Or if you extend the users table, the behavior is already loaded, so just configure it with:

$this->behaviors()->get('Social')->config(['username' => 'email']);

By default it will use username field.

Social Middlewares

We provide two middlewares to help us with the integration of social providers. The SocialAuthMiddleware is the main one, it is responsible for redirecting the user to the social provider site and setting up information needed by the CakeDC/Users.Social authenticator. The second one, SocialEmailMiddleware, is used when the social provider does not return the user email.

Social Authenticators

The social authentication works with cakephp/authentication, we have two authenticators they work in combination with the two social middlewares:

• CakeDC/Users.Social, works with SocialAuthMiddleware
• CakeDC/Users.SocialPendingEmail, works with SocialEmailMiddleware

Social Identifier

The social identifier "CakeDC/Users.Social" works with data provided by both social authenticators. It is responsible for finding or creating a user record for the social user data request. By default, it'll fetch user data with finder 'active', but you can use a custom one. Add this to your config/users.php:

'Auth.Authenticators.Social.identifier.CakeDC/Users.Social.authFinder' => 'customSocialAuth',

Handling Social Login Result

We use a base component CakeDC/Users.Login to handle login, it checks the result of authentication service to redirect the user to an internal page or show an authentication error. It provides some error messages for social login. There are two custom messages (Auth.SocialLoginFailure.messages) and one default message (Auth.SocialLoginFailure.defaultMessage).

To use a custom component to handle the login add this to your config/users.php file:

'Auth.SocialLoginFailure.component' => 'MyLoginA',

The default configuration is:

[
    ...
    'Auth' => [
        ...
        'SocialLoginFailure' => [
            'component' => 'CakeDC/Users.Login',
            'defaultMessage' => __d('cake_d_c/users', 'Could not proceed with social account. Please try again'),
            'messages' => [
                'FAILURE_USER_NOT_ACTIVE' => __d(
                    'cake_d_c/users',
                    'Your user has not been validated yet. Please check your inbox for instructions'
                ),
                'FAILURE_ACCOUNT_NOT_ACTIVE' => __d(
                    'cake_d_c/users',
                    'Your social account has not been validated yet. Please check your inbox for instructions'
                )
            ],
            'targetAuthenticator' => 'CakeDC\Users\Authenticator\SocialAuthenticator'
        ],
        ...
    ]
]