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Top 19 PHP Authentication and Authorization Projects
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Project mention: Laravel + React Authentication the Right Way: Sanctum, JWT, or Passport? A Developer’s Comparison | dev.to | 2025-12-23
Passport uses the open-standard League OAuth2 server under the hood.Source: https://oauth2.thephpleague.com/
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Project mention: Using JWT to establish a trusted context for Row Level Security | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-01
> At the very least you should propose an alternative that people use besides JWTs
PASETO: https://paseto.io
I thought this was common knowledge on HN?
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HybridAuth
Open source social sign on PHP Library. HybridAuth goal is to act as an abstract api between your application and various social apis and identities providers such as Facebook, Twitter and Google.
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SocialConnect Auth
:atom: Social (OAuth1\OAuth2\OpenID\OpenIDConnect) sign with PHP :shipit: (by SocialConnect)
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Sign in with Apple for PHP
PHP library to verify and validate Apple IdentityToken and authenticate a user with Apple ID.
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Rinvex Authy PHP Client
Rinvex Authy is a simple wrapper for @Authy TOTP API, the best rated Two-Factor Authentication service for consumers, simplest 2fa Rest API for developers and a strong authentication platform for the enterprise. (by rinvex)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Authentication and Authorization projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Json Web Token | 7,482 |
| 2 | PHP OAuth 2.0 Server | 6,646 |
| 3 | OAuth 2.0 Client | 3,809 |
| 4 | paseto | 3,389 |
| 5 | HybridAuth | 3,388 |
| 6 | Opauth | 1,637 |
| 7 | Sentinel | 1,524 |
| 8 | TwoFactorAuth | 1,178 |
| 9 | PHP oAuthLib | 1,080 |
| 10 | OAuth 1.0 Client | 998 |
| 11 | Lock | 864 |
| 12 | SocialConnect Auth | 563 |
| 13 | Multi-Factor | 142 |
| 14 | Aura.Auth | 134 |
| 15 | Sign in with Apple for PHP | 91 |
| 16 | Hawk | 67 |
| 17 | TwitterOAuth | 50 |
| 18 | TwitterSDK | 37 |
| 19 | Rinvex Authy PHP Client | 35 |
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