LinkedIn API retrieve information after logging in

Question

ok i'm a noob to PHP and with these lines of code i've managed to get the API working that you have to log in as a user

$redirect = "https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorization?response_type=code&client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&scope=r_fullprofile&state=state&redirect_uri=mysite";

header('Location: '. $redirect);

now i'm wondering after the redirect how can i retrieve that user his information to my site? because the only way i can find is using oAuth but they ask for a consumer_key and consumer_secret but i have no clue how to fill these to retrieve the skills with: https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:(skills) (that's how i did it with my own profile)

i've tried getting the example to work but it won't work in a way that i can extract stuff from ppl.

can somebody help me please?

Gerben Jacobs Gerben Jacobs · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-23T13:12:47

Where you supplied &redirect_uri is where LinkedIn will send back the message (success or fail). So on that page you can intercept the authorization token.

LinkedIn API retrieve information after logging in

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