Our CMS can be broken down into several different components:
Users who will be responsible for viewing and managing the content
Content to be managed
Categories for our content to be placed into
Metadata to help us further define our content and users
Search engine optimizations
The first component of our application is the users who will perform all the tasks in our application. For this application, we're going to largely reuse the user database and authentication system we expanded upon in Chapter 5, Creating a Microblogging Platform. In this chapter, we'll enhance this functionality by allowing social authentication. Our CMS will allow users to register new accounts from the data provided by Twitter; after they have registered, the CMS will allow them to sign-in to our application by signing in to Twitter.
To enable us to know if a user is a socially authenticated user, we have to make several changes to both our database and our authentication scheme. First, we...