Setting up OAuth with the HybridAuth package

There may be times when we don't want to worry about storing users' passwords. In that case, OAuth has become a popular alternative that allows us to authenticate a user based on a third-party service such as Facebook or Twitter. This recipe will show how to set up the HybridAuth package to make OAuth easy.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a standard Laravel installation and a way to access the command-line interface, so we can use the Artisan command-line utility.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

1. Open our app's composer.json file and add HybridAuth to the require section, so it should look like this:

   "require": {
       "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
       "hybridauth/hybridauth": "dev-master"
   },

2. In the command-line interface, update composer as follows:

   php composer.phar update
   

3. In the app/config directory, create a new file named as oauth.php:

   <?php
   return array(
       "base_url"   => "http://path/to/our/app/oauth/auth...