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Asked: 2026-06-01T04:58:35+00:00

I’m using socialoauth ( http://code.google.com/p/socialoauth/ ) to implement twitter & facebook logins for a

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I’m using socialoauth (http://code.google.com/p/socialoauth/) to implement twitter & facebook logins for a web site. The site is php and mysql based.

I’ve got logins implemented and working, but I need to get the users screen name or email so that I can store their preferences about my site in a mysql database. I’m not sure how to go about getting their information once I’ve got the oauth_token and oauth_secret. I couldn’t find any documentation or examples using socialoauth, aside from getting the logins working.

I downloaded twitteroauth (https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth), and mismashed that together with socialoauth.php via this tutorial (http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/how-to-authenticate-users-with-twitter-oauth/) and was able to get the twitter user’s information, but I would prefer to use only socialoauth.php because it does logins for both facebook and twitter.

Specific question: does anyone know which functions in socialoauth are used to get the user’s information (hopefully for both twitter and facebook)? I’m very new to this, so it’s possible I saw the function I needed while I was looking through the code, and simply didn’t recognize it as what I needed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Twitter does not provide access to users email addresses. The users Twitter screen_name should be returned in the same request you get their access token however.

    With Facebook you have to ask for the email permission and then their email address should be accessible with the profile details.

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