Hi folks, hope you’re doing well. This is just a general ask for help with direction - we’re wanting to use Discourse’s registration / user management / db to register the same details in our external game database (so the player can use the same login details to log into the game). Currently goin…

The magic words are “ DiscourseConnect ” and “identity provider” :wink: [image] Use Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect) Integrations So you want to use Discourse as an identity provider for your own web app? Great! Let’s get started. Enab…

Super, thanks for sending this over!

This looks like SSO / DiscouseConnect is needing emails to be validated by a third party. This is a problem for our particular setup, as we’d like Discourse to handle validating emails and account management as usual, but just pass on the database info to our game DB. So in essence a reversal of w…

When you use Discourse as the identity provider as Richard suggested, Discourse will handle email validation for you. When the user goes through the SSO flow on Discourse and then back to your website, you can use the response that Discourse adds as an embedded query string to the sso param, contai…

Hm okay. So as mentioned its not a website that Discourse will be sending the info to. Its a game server - aka just a VPS with MySQL running on it. The old workflow was this: Unity populates the SQL tables when users “register an account”. What I’m looking to do is use Discourse as the registra…

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) May 21, 2024, 2:16pm 2

The magic words are “DiscourseConnect” and “identity provider”

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