Magento Login with OpenID
Magento is without doubt the leader of open source ecommerce period. It’s the worlds fastest-growing ecommerce platform and appears to be fully in tune with all of today’s latest SEO and Web 2.0 standards. It therefore surprises me that Magento doesn’t yet include the ability to accept OpenID by default. I’m sure that integrating this functionality wouldn’t be a huge problem for the Magento development team as it is becoming increasingly used across the Internet.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with OpenID, it’s basically a way of safely logging into many different website with the same username and password, thus eliminating the need to have, as I do, 500 different username and password combinations for every website that I use. Think of it as having the same key to open all the doors and windows to your house, your shed, your car and your work office. Imagine how much simpler life would be?
The good news is that a Magento Connect developer has already enabled an extension which allows swift login with your AOL, Google, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo and other websites… it also includes OpenID! You can download it from here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/amitshah2007/extension/3720/rpx_sign_in
RPX sign in is very easy to install and configure and gives you the opportunity to allow certain website accounts to login to your Magento frontend.
Thing is, while Magento is clearly loving the fact that such a huge community of developers are constantly adding fantastic new features to their product, there are some things which Magento will need to add as standard to stay ahead of the competition, and one of those things in my opinion is OpenID. Thanks for reading the Magento Blog at Ecommerce Web Design.
Also, take a look at our OpenID extension for Magento on our website
Your Open ID extension looks ok, but is it compatible with 1.4+?
This is indeed the kind of thing that magento should be inspired to implement, and I mean in the community edition too. I am too more and more interested to add OpenId login forms in my future projects. Is the code of the mentioned module worthy of the money, respecting good practices (i see the dev asking to put scripts within js/varien), being easily customizable (not somehow encrypted), etc? Thank you in advance.
that code is not at all good , i have found that code is worst with edit in many core files .
Hi Rahul,
Yes it does seem to edit the product controller – but you might be able to create a local copy in your local folder? This way you can save your core files – same applies to all fixes and extensions really.