Posts by Brian Retterer

WordPress is a great tool for website developers. As of today, it powers over a quarter of the Internet, so clearly the team at WordPress is doing a few things right! With all the great features and support that WordPress provides, there are a couple problems that make secure user authentication in WordPress a challenge. …

Stormpath just announced the release of our Stormpath WordPress plugin, which allows you to use Stormpath inside of your WordPress website. While writing this plugin, we had to “hack” the native WordPress authentication system to get our SDK working seamlessly. I’m excited to share some of the hacks we were able to leverage! We had …

Do you have a website that’s built on WordPress? Do you also have an application that you have built outside of WordPress? Would it be awesome if your users could use the same account information for both? Now, they totally can! The official Stormpath WordPress plugin has been released! Currently, the Stormpath WordPress plugin is …

Zendcon is a yearly conference organized by the team over at Zend, the maintainers of PHP. Each year, many PHP developers gather in Las Vegas to geek out and talk PHP. This year, I will be attending for the first time, and I couldn’t be more excited! Stormpath will also be there to sponsor the …

Finally, it’s October! It is the time of the year, that the leaves begin to start changing colors and the month that contains one of my favorite holidays, Halloween! My wife and I go all out decorating our house. We even hand-spun our own 20-foot spiderweb and topped it off with ‘bodies’ on which the …

Social login and registration are hot features that have become “expected” of most new applications. Building these features can be difficult and fraught, and ultimately something most developers aren’t excited to tackle. Here’s the good news: Social login is a core feature of the Stormpath PHP SDK! With Stormpath, you only need a few lines …

One of the questions I am asked all the time about the Stormpath Laravel package is, “Why do I need to use a package for authentication in Laravel when it is built in?” I will be the first to admit that the Laravel authentication is well built and a great addition to the framework. It …

I am happy to announce that we have now added Lumen to Stormpath’s PHP integrations. This integration requires minimal setup and about five minutes to get a PHP backend up and running for your mobile applications – exciting! With our Lumen integration, you can quickly set up user registration and user authentication using OAuth tokens. This tutorial will teach …

Social login is one of the easiest options for users to log into your site. At Stormpath, we’ve made social login easy for you to build by adding Facebook and Google login to the Stormpath Laravel integration. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up Facebook and Google to allow you to …

At Stormpath, we want to make it as easy as possible to create your application. Our Laravel Integration is no exception. Events give developers an important tool to hook into different parts of a package to run your own business logic. Events can dramatically simplify application development, particularly when adding user functionality to a webapp. …