this is my first time to work with API’s in PHP, so please bear with me for asking a very basic question. All I need is to read my LinkedIn Summary from my LinkedIn profile and automatically show it on my website.
However the documentation on https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/libraries-and-tools is quite overwhelming for me, and I don’t know where to start. I was pointed to http://pecl.php.net/package/oauth and I even found http://code.google.com/p/simple-linkedinphp/downloads/detail?name=3.2.0.zip&can=2&q= but I just can’t put all these together.
The other materials I saw online assume that I know how to install oAuth on my server. Even the LinkedIn guide assumes that too.
Could anybody give me some steps to follow to at least be able to make a call to display just the Summary from my LinkedIn profile, or maybe point me to a link that explains it for newbies? My website is hosted free on x10hosting.com.
Thank you so much.
There is a quick start guide (which has PHP code) here:
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2
It does, however, require that you know how to install libraries on your server. This is a requirement for any OAuth library.