authentication linkedin

LinkedIn authentication

Note: when configuring your LinkedIn app take extra care to ensure the callback URLs are correct, they are sticklers for that.

Installation

Garp's LinkedIn adapter uses the linkedinapi/linkedin composer package. Install via

composer require linkedinapi/linkedin

Make sure to add composer's autoload functions by adding the following to index.php:

require_once('../vendor/autoload.php');

Configuration

LinkedIn adapter classname suffix, should always be 'LinkedIn':

auth.adapters.linkedin.class = "Linkedin"

LinkedIn app credentials:

auth.adapters.linkedin.consumerKey = "75c4netmgy3kkn"
auth.adapters.linkedin.consumerSecret = "4Ty7XsNz59zPZsTB"

Mapping LinkedIn columns to database columns. Note that in the example below formattedName is the name on the LinkedIn side of things, whereas name is in our own local database.

auth.adapters.linkedin.mapping[formattedName] = "name"
auth.adapters.linkedin.mapping[emailAddress] = "email"
auth.adapters.linkedin.mapping[pictureUrl] = "imageUrl"