brucewu16899 / manager

Easily add new or override built-in Laravel Socialite providers

Socialite Providers Manager

About

A package for Laravel Socialite that allows you to easily add new providers or override current providers.

Benefits

• You will have access to all of the providers that you load in using the manager.
• Instantiation is deferred until Socialite is called
• You can override current providers
• You can create new providers

Available Providers

• See the SocialiteProviders list
• You can also make your own or modify someone else's

Reference

• Laravel docs about events
• Laracasts video on events in Laravel 5
• Laravel Socialite Docs
• Laracasts Socialite video

Creating a Handler

Below is an example handler. You need to add this full class name to the listen[] in the EventServiceProvider.

• See also the Laravel docs about events.
• providername is the name of the provider such as meetup.
• You will need to change your the namespacing and class names of course.

namespace Your\Name\Space;

use SocialiteProviders\Manager\SocialiteWasCalled;

class ProviderNameExtendSocialite
{
    public function handle(SocialiteWasCalled $socialiteWasCalled)
    {
        $socialiteWasCalled->extendSocialite('providername', 'Your\Name\Space\ProviderName');
    }
}

Creating a Provider

• Look at the already created providers for inspiration.
• See this article on Medium

Overriding a Built-in Provider

You can easily override a built-in laravel/socialite provider by creating a new one with exactly the same name (i.e. 'facebook').