PHP-Auth
Authentication for PHP. Simple, lightweight and secure. (by delight-im)
Halite
High-level cryptography interface powered by libsodium (by paragonie)
| PHP-Auth | Halite | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 7 | |
| 1,045 | 1,111 | |
| 1.5% | 0.0% | |
| 7.5 | 0.0 | |
| 24 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PHP-Auth
Posts with mentions or reviews of PHP-Auth.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
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PHPAuth String Encryption
It may be helpful here to be specific about which "PHPAuth" project you're talking about. A quick google brings up at least 2 projects with similar names - https://github.com/PHPAuth/PHPAuth and https://github.com/delight-im/PHP-Auth - the latter has a recently opened issue about encryption of PII
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Checking if a user is logged in - which of these approaches is "most correct"?
I basically just roll with the excellent delight-im/auth package nowadays, but it uses:
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Any good PHP authentication library?
Not familiar with Devise (or Rails). But in PHP land I've used the delight-im/auth authentication system a few times and quite like it.
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log in page encryption.. shouldn't that be done client side?
I quite like delight-im/auth the author of this has also produced delight-im/db both are quite easy to use and have documentation that nicely walks you through the setup and usage.
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I start my journey this year
For simple login/auth, I like this library: https://github.com/delight-im/PHP-Auth
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Need Help With Login Code
After several projects where I crafted slightly login systems for each.. and then realised that I needed to maintain them in future. I've started using delight-im/PHP-Auth it's pretty sweet with good documentation.
- Weekly help thread
- Alternatives for passwordless login like Magiclink?
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Authentication System
There are a bunch out there but have a look at this one for instance: https://github.com/delight-im/PHP-Auth
Halite
Posts with mentions or reviews of Halite.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-09.
- sodium_crypto_secretbox
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Does Halite do PGP?
I'm trying to find a PHP package that will handle PGP encryption/decryption. Halite keeps coming up but I can't tell from searching if it handles PGP. If it doesn't, can you recommend a PHP package that does? Thanks!
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Sodium encryption and digital signing made simple
Sounds like https://github.com/paragonie/halite. What does this do better?
- Halite (usable cryptography library for PHP) version 5.0.0 released (Security Improvements within!)
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Weekly "ask anything" thread
One of the Golden Rules of Computing is "Never roll your own Crypto" (without a PhD in Cryptography). If you need to encrypt something at rest I'd recommend the really very excellent Halite Library.
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PASETO v2.0.0 released! (Lengthy release notes)
10,000%. I love Halite.
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PHP.Net Documentation for ext/sodium Coming Soon
Excellent job! I've been using the https://github.com/paragonie/halite library on top of Sodium just so I don't have to re-work everything out, but this is going to be nice for cases when including third party libraries isn't possible!
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PHP-Auth and Halite you can also consider the following projects:
PHPAuth - PHPAuth is a secure PHP Authentication class that easily integrates into any site.
PHP Encryption - Simple Encryption in PHP.
Aura.Auth - Provides a unified interface to local and remote authentication systems.
PHPSecLib - PHP Secure Communications Library
Thinki-Downloader - A php based utility to download courses from Thinkific based sites like PacktPub for personal offline use.
HTML Purifier - Standards compliant HTML filter written in PHP
OpenID-Connect-PHP - Minimalist OpenID Connect client
PHP IDS - PHPIDS (PHP-Intrusion Detection System) is a simple to use, well structured, fast and state-of-the-art security layer for your PHP based web application
Sentinel - A framework agnostic authentication & authorization system.
PHP SSH - An experimental object oriented SSH api in PHP
bouncer - Laravel Eloquent roles and abilities.
random_compat - PHP 5.x support for random_bytes() and random_int()