Implementing OAuth support on a website

Question

I want to extend my website to support OAuth so that third party applications can access data and perform actions on behalf of the website user. How should I go about it?

Basically I would like to know how to go about generating access tokens and the database setup that should be done.

Answer 1

First you should choose which authorization schema you will implement on your site. In your case it could be:

1. Authorization Code Grant
2. Implicit Grant

Then taking in account a programming language and framework you can make your choice.

In any case you'll have to configure some kind of routing for OAuth urls and redirects and a persistent storage.