ManiaConnect: unified authentication system

[gouxim]

Edit: updated documentation available at http://code.google.com/p/maniaplanet-ws ... ingStarted

Hello fellow coders,

As you may know we dropped the "addplayerid" feature in the Manialinks. We did that because for the Maniaplanet adventure to be as good as possible, we need to build a very robust system right from the begining; addplayerid was not compatible with that statement.

Hence we're now introducing ManiaConnect. It is a unified authentication system that let's your application authenticate players with their Maniaplanet account and retrieve various information. The great thing is that it works both on Manialinks and on Websites. With the open-source PHP SDK (to be released soon), integration is very easy.

ManiaConnect: authenticate players with their Maniaplanet account on both Manialinks and Websites.

It all relies on the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It's a standard that you can find on Facebook's, Twitter's and Google's APIs for instance. For those familiar with the TrackMania Web Services, ManiaConnect is the "oauth2" support that we introduced a few weeks ago.

[Work in progress: hands-on tutorial]

Have fun !

[TheM]

Nice to see this coming
This is like the replacement of the Community Code of TMF?

/me hoping on a release as soon as possible

[fastforza]

I've been waiting for this.

BTW, as much as 'authentify' is a word ...

ManiaConnect: authentify players with their Maniaplanet account on both Manialinks and Websites. makes no sense. It should be ManiaConnect: authenticate players with their Maniaplanet account on both Manialinks and Websites.

[gouxim]

Thanks, it's been edited.

[gouxim]

This is like the replacement of the Community Code of TMF?

Yes indeed.

[TheM]

This is like the replacement of the Community Code of TMF?

Yes indeed.

Is there a possibility to check the serverlogin in a script?
I'm trying to make a sort of RemoteCP which gets information from the server, but I want to authenticate the server (make sure the server is correct (so with password)).
I also have to make sure that someone can login with the serverlogin/password before you can give other logins the rights to see the information.

[TStarGermany]

(Hi gouxim, would you consider to bring back a small "addplayernick" for some easy going stuff like "hello (name)" or guestbook/shoutbox apps? i mean the stuff where a remote authentication is overkill)

[fastforza]

Currently in action at Mania Exchange.

[gouxim]

(Hi gouxim, would you consider to bring back a small "addplayernick" for some easy going stuff like "hello (name)" or guestbook/shoutbox apps? i mean the stuff where a remote authentication is overkill)

Not for now. Addplayernickname still has the problem of user privacy, as I mentionned in other posts. And in any case, a shoutbox app NEEDS authentication to avoid people talking as if they were someone else.

[gouxim]

Currently in action at Mania Exchange.