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Use DISQUS users/details to get an SSO account's username
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<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');
$key="<your DISQUS API application key>"; // Requires a registered DISQUS API application. Create one (free) at http://disqus.com/api/applications/
$remote_domain="<remote domain slug>"; // slug of the remote domain established at http://disqus.com/api/sso/ (the bolded word)
$remote_identifier="<unique ID>"; // unique ID passed in the remote_auth_s3 payload
// For more on unique ID see http://docs.disqus.com/developers/sso/ > "Using HMAC-SHA1 to pass user data" > "The message body (Base64-encoded)" > "id"
// construct the query with our API key and the query we want to make
// FORMAT: user=remote:remote_domain-remote_identifier
$endpoint = 'http://disqus.com/api/3.0/users/details.json?api_key='.urlencode($key).'&user=remote:'.$remote_domain.'-'.$remote_identifier;
// setup curl to make a call to the endpoint
$session = curl_init($endpoint);
// start dialing
$ch = curl_init();
// indicates that we want the response back rather than just returning a "TRUE" string
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// execute GET and get the session back
$result = curl_exec($session);
// close connection
curl_close($session);
// decode the json data to make it easier to parse the php
$results = json_decode($data);
if ($results === NULL) die('Error parsing json');
// show the response in the browser
// var_dump($results);
$sso_username = $results->response->username;
echo $sso_username;
?>
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