Using blogs to change the world
wraith @ Fri May 27, 2005 4:34 pm
it's nice to see that other people think this is a neat idea. <br /> <br /> you don't need to literally connect to the databases, all you need is an abstraction layer. <br /> <br /> practically every site has the same table structure for users. with one script, you can export that information via an xml file to the network of sites you want to integrate with. when the saskatchewan people and i wanted to share user data, it was to authenticate for a private napster server, but it would be trivial to make a portable script that could provide universal passport login to as many sites as have webmasters with a basic undertanding of PHP and are willing. <br /> <br /> regarding the canadian activist/sovereigntarian blogging thing, i think its a service that should be offered if it isnt already. also pretty trivial to implement, but a pain to hack into an existing site. <br /> <br /> i just get this feeling that all of us web people are writing exactly the same things, like moderation modules and whatnot, and all this replication of labour could be better served if we had more common goals and a lose standard code. xml makes it easy, its what its designed for (though you wouldnt know it from all the headline parsers out there.) <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'>
Jesse @ Fri May 27, 2005 5:10 pm
Please refer to the forum topic I just started about openID; I think it's a better abstraction that exporting actual user data.