Authenticating Users via the EspoCRM API for External Application Login

[joostk]

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a project where I want to leverage the user credentials stored in my EspoCRM to authenticate users into an external application. Essentially, the idea is to let users log into a different application using their EspoCRM username and password.

I've attempted to use the EspoCRM API for this purpose, but I'm running into some issues. I know that EspoCRM provides an API key-based method, which I've successfully used to fetch other types of data. But, when it comes to user authentication for an external login system, I'm a bit stuck.

Has anyone else tried to do something similar? I'd really appreciate some pointers:

1. Is the EspoCRM API designed to handle such authentication use cases?
2. Are there specific API endpoints or methods I should be using?

Thanks and take care!

Joost

[Firyo]

Hi there,

On my end I did something like this (in Laravel)

PHP Controller


$base64Auth is $authStr here
PHP Service


You can do a cURL GET request and it will be the same.
$user will contain the user's data or nothing if the username / password aren't matching.

Regards,
Firyo.