Autofill a username and password

Question

I would like to be able to click a link in Website A that will autofill a username and password into Website B.

Can anybody provide me some ideas how to do this with JavaScript or PHP?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

I am not sure what you mean by your question. Have you tried looking at OpenSocial or OpenID?

Answer 2

If you're able to edit website B, you can try to add a query string contains username and password to link and on website B get them from url and echo into input field's value attribute.

#Sample url on website A:
http://www.example.com/?username=admin&password=1234

#Simple sample form on website B:
<form>
    <input type="text" value="<?php echo $_GET['username']; ?>" />
    <input type="password" value="<?php echo $_GET['password']; ?>" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

Answer 3

As someone else mentioned before the cleanest solution is to use a credential token.

1. User logs in on Site A.
2. Site A inserts a credential token in Site B's database - either by directly contacting the database of Site B or by calling a URL or an API in the background. This credential token will contain a unique token identifier (usually a long string, possibly obtained from md5-ing something) and the username and password of the user on Site B.
3. When the user is presented links to Site B on Site A all of them end with &token=123456789abcdef0
4. When the user arrives on Site B and the URL contains the token mentioned, username and password are extracted from the token in Site B's database and prefilled in the login box.

Tweak this to your liking.