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GitHub provides a web-based hosting service for version control. It plays an important role in software and web development. Presently GitHub has over 28 million users from around the world. If you want to allow users to log in with their social account, GitHub can be the best option besides the other social media OAuth Login (Facebook OAuth API<\/a>, Google OAuth API<\/a>, Twitter OAuth API<\/a>, etc.). GitHub OAuth Login<\/b> is a quick and powerful way to integrate user login system into the web application.<\/p>\n

GitHub authentication API allows the users to sign in to the website using their GitHub account without registration on your website. Login with GitHub<\/b> account can be easily implemented using GitHub OAuth API. In this tutorial, we will show you how to integrate the user login and registration system with GitHub using PHP and store the user’s profile data in the MySQL database.<\/p>\n

Before getting started, take a look at the file structure to implement GitHub Login with PHP<\/b>.<\/p>\n

github_login_with_php\/<\/span>\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 config.php\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 index.php\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 logout.php\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 User.class.php\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 src\/<\/span>\r\n\u2502   \u2514\u2500\u2500Github_OAuth_Client.php\r\n\u251c\u2500\u2500 css\/<\/span>\r\n\u2502   \u2514\u2500\u2500 style.css\r\n\u2514\u2500\u2500 images\/<\/span>\r\n    \u2514\u2500\u2500 github-login.png\r\n<\/pre>\n
Create GitHub OAuth Application<\/h2>\n
You need to create and register OAuth App to access GitHub API. Also, the Client ID and Client Secret need to be specified at the time of the GitHub API call. Follow the below steps to create and configure the GitHub OAuth application.<\/p>\n