YQL + PHP : how to make a facebook login

Question

I was reading some stuff about the YQL api that Yahoo! has provided, I am not sure, but it appears to be a collection of lots of third party api into one common language, right?

what I don't get is how to make the facebook login through it so I can get the user profile data...

My project is to add a facebook(and other social networks) form login, because the website won't have his own login, people will have to use a social network to link in. Then I thought the YQL would help me out with this task so I wouldn't have to develop lots of functions to each one of the networks.

Reading this http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/yql-code-examples.html#sdk_yql, I understood how to make a Yahoo login so I can access some private data, but couldn't find how I could do it with facebook and others

So my question... Can YQL help me with this? Can you give me a simple example of a facebook session using it within PHP? Are there alternatives to aid me in this task?

thanks,
Jonathan

Answer 1

I highly doubt that YQL has an API that gives a free hand with facebook login. You have to consider how a login works. You send POST data to a web server containing client-side password hashes and encryptions, as well as other kinds of identification. YQL has no way to "standardize" logins - it would have to make a new API for every popular web site.

Answer 2

Yes , using YQL you will be able to do this task .. you can look at this demo http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/05/showing-facebook-twitter-rss-stats-jquery-yql/demo.html. Also if you are going to only use Facebook authentication , then there is no need for YQL you can do it using http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/