I am a student working on a small website / project to practice using PHP and learning how to use the API. This is essentially a digg or reddit-like website where users submit an article and others can promote and comment on it. So far, I have not had the opportunity to limit users to one vote for the submission.
I thought it would be nice to implement “log in to Twitter” and associate whether the user voted for something earlier with their Twitter ID (or ID). If the identifier is not recognized (they have not logged in to my site before on Twitter), their username will be added to the SQL database, and their username will also be recorded in a separate database for each issue to which they agree.
My question is: is this a good idea? Are there reasons why this will not work in the long run? I didn’t have much experience with web development, so I don’t know if I am making any kind of security error or is incredibly inefficient.
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