Socialid.login.startLogin

Description

Starts the social login process for the given provider. It could open a popup dialog or redirect to the provider, depending on the loginType.

This method can trigger the following events:

• socialid.events.onLoginStart
• socialid.events.onLoginSuccess
• socialid.events.onLoginCancel
• socialid.events.onLoginError

Usage

 socialid.login.startLogin(provider)

Parameters

provider	required	Determines which provider will be used in the login process. Can be "facebook", "twitter", "linkedin" or "gplus".

Example

It opens a popup starting the login dialog with Facebook when the user clicks on the "facebook_login" button:

 socialid.login.init(1, {loginType: "event"});
 facebook_button = document.getElementById("facebook_login");
 facebook_button.onclick = function() {
   socialid.login.startLogin("facebook");
 };

You can test this parameters in our playground: https://sid-examples.herokuapp.com/social_logins/playground