Chapter 1. Tutorial: Creating an OAuth Application
An OAuth Application uses Yahoo! Web services and OAuth authorization. In this tutorial you
will create an OAuth Application with the mysocial.php script discussed in Getting Started: Build Your First Open
Application. After creating your OAuth Application, you will run
myscript.php and view your social data in a web page.
Creating an OAuth Application has the following steps:
Prerequisites
- To understand this material, you must be familiar with PHP, HTML/XHTML, and Web application development.
- You will need a Web server with PHP installed.
- On your Web server, install the Yahoo! Social SDK for PHP. You can download this SDK from github.