使用php-github-api进行Github身份验证

I am trying to implement Github authentication in my application (built using Laravel 4) using php-github-api by KnpLabs. I went ahead and created an app in my Github account to obtain the client_id and the secret key.

The problem is, I cannot authenticate using this library. A null result is returned. It implementation seems simple but I cannot get it work. Checkout how I am implementing it.

try{
        $client = new Github\Client();

        $auth= $client->authenticate('myclientid','mysecret',AUTH_URL_CLIENT_ID);

        $emails = $client->api('current_user')->emails()->all();

        return Response::json(array("user"=>$emails));
    }catch(Exception $e){
        return Response::json(array('failed',$e->getMessage()));
    }

This is the result I get from the above:

 ["failed","Requires authentication"]

Please someone help me figure out what I am doing wrong.

Thank you.

I believe AUTH_URL_CLIENT_ID should be Github\Client::AUTH_URL_CLIENT_ID

This is more of a Github matter rather than a php-github-api question, really:

curl "https://api.github.com/user/emails?client_id=xxxx&client_secret=yyyy"

will fail too, whereas:

curl "https://api.github.com/user/emails" -u mbontemps

works just fine.

I think the reason is that client_id and client_secret authenticate an application, while the second command authenticates a user.

It's like you're asking: "hey, application, tell me your emails".
And the app is answering: "wait, what? I'm no user, dude!"

So IMO you'll need to authorize the application for your user (which will give you a token) and then use this token to authenticate with the OAuth mechanism.

cf. http://developer.github.com/v3/#basic-authentication

Good luck!