LinkedIn oAuth and Sessions
Development and Programming
Hi All,
I’m currently writing an addon for a client to pre-populate a profile page with content directly from LinkedIn, however I’m becoming a little unstuck and not sure how to resolve…
I have a module which initiates the LinkedIn Authentication - goes off to LinkedIn, requests oAuth permission and then upon granted redirects back to my URL site.com/index.php?ACT=35&oauth_token=xxxxxxxxx etc…
According to the docs from LinkedIn, I check for the oauth_token presence in the QueryString and then do the following:
$access_token = $_SESSION['laccess_oauth_token'];
$access_token_secret =$_SESSION['laccess_oauth_token_secret'];
$oauth_verifier = $_SESSION['loauth_verifier'];
$oauthc->setToken($access_token,$access_token_secret);The problem I have is that the $_SESSION[] isn’t available for me, so I can’t get the values to initiate the API calls…
Anyone got any ideas?
If you need any more info - feel free to shout.
Cheers,
C.
I haven’t used oauth yet so maybe this is a silly question, but how would an external site be able to set $_SESSION data on your server?…
Oh and shouldn’t you be using $this->EE->session->userdata(‘foo’);?
yes ignore me - once I’d posted it, I asked myself the same question…..
I think I’ve found the problem… it was somewhere between the keyboard and chair!
Now to try to reclaim the last few hours of my life!
Rgds,
C.
It’s nice to see someone else doing what i do regularly 😉
Carl, how can the coffee possibly be the problem?
Carl, how can the coffee possibly be the problem?
Not enough of it! 😊