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Package linkedin-api-php-client
Short Description LinkedIn API PHP SDK with OAuth 2.0 & CSRF support. Can be used for social sign in or sharing on LinkedIn. Examples. Documentation.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/zoonman/linkedin-api-php-client
Informations about the package linkedin-api-php-client
Attention!
This a fork from the original code from Zoonman
LinkedIn API Client with OAuth 2 authorization written on PHP
See index.php to get started.
Installation
You will need at least PHP 5.6. PHP 5.5 was deprecated more than a year ago! This is the time for upgrade.
Use composer package manager to install the lastest version of the package:
Or add this package as dependency to composer.json
.
If you have never used Composer, you should start here and install composer.
Usage
To start working with LinkedIn API, you will need to get application client id and secret.
Go to LinkedIn Developers portal and create new application in section My Apps.
Bootstrapping autoloader and instantiating a client
Getting local redirect URL
To start linking process you have to setup redirect url.
You can set your own or use current one.
SDK provides you a getRedirectUrl()
helper for your convenience:
We recommend you to have it stored during the linking session because you will need to use it when you will be getting access token.
Setting local redirect URL
Set a custom redirect url use:
Getting LinkedIn redirect URL
In order of performing OAUTH 2.0 flow, you should get LinkedIn login URL.
During this procedure you have to define scope of requested permissions.
Use Scope
enum class to get scope names.
To get redirect url to LinkedIn, use the following approach:
Now you can take user to LinkedIn. You can use link or rely on Location HTTP header.
Getting Access Token
To get access token use (don't forget to set redirect url)
This method returns object of LinkedIn\AccessToken
class.
You can store this token in the file like this:
This way of storing tokens is not recommended due to security concerns and used for demonstration purpose. Please, ensure that tokens are stored securely.
Setting Access Token
You can use method setAccessToken()
for the LinkedIn\Client
class to set token stored as string. You have to pass
instance of LinkedIn\AccessToken
to this method.
Performing API calls
All API calls can be called through simple method:
There are 3 helper methods:
Examples
Perform api call to get profile information
List companies where you are an admin
Share content on a personal profile
Make sure that image URL is available from the Internet (don't use localhost in the image url).
Get Company page profile
Share content on a LinkedIn business page
Setup custom API request headers
Change different headers sent to LinkedIn API.
Change default API root
Some private API access there.
Image Upload
I assume you have to be LinkedIn partner or something like that.
Try to upload image to LinkedIn. See Rich Media Shares (returns "Not enough permissions to access media resource" for me).
Contributing
Please, open PR with your changes linked to an GitHub issue. You code must follow PSR standards and have PHPUnit tests.
License
MIT