[daniweb-oauth] Forum Topics

# What is OAuth and why do I want to use it? If you want to write an application that caters to existing members of a service, and you want your application to be able to access private areas of your end-users' profiles, or modify their accounts on their behalf, …

A few new OAuth-related API features. Firstly, there is now the concept of scope. So if you want to do things like spy on a member's private messages or chat on their behalf, you now need to pass in the required scope (details in API documentation) to ask for more …

# The nature of this tutorial ... This tutorial is designed to walk you through DaniWeb's implicit (clientside) OAuth flow. This is not designed to be an introductory tutorial to OAuth, and we will expect that you are already familiar with the nature of OAuth and/or have read our tutorial …