PHPAuth

Notice! (pr 1/10/2020)

PHPAuth is undergoing a complete rewrite to bring the code up to date, the project has been on hold for way to long time now, and I decided to work on it again making sure EVERYONE can use it and not just advanced programmers. My goal is to make an Auth framework that is secure, extendable and usable for everyone. It will take some time, but we have a good amount of users already using this code which are happily to help out.

Goals:

• Bring code up to latest PHP version with min. of v7.1 to v7.4 (If new version comes out while rewriting the code will be pushed up to that version also)
  • PHP 7 improvements
• Making the code even more secure to use by adding things like one time keys (OTP, 2FA etc)
• Make sure that the code can be used by everyone, also beginners.
• Write much better documentation.
• Make database queries faster.
• Optimize the code.
• Bring down issue count.
• Respond faster to issue and PRs.
• And much more!

What is it

PHPAuth is a secure user authentication class for PHP websites, using a powerful password hashing system (Thanks to ZxcvbnPhp\Zxcvbn) and attack blocking to keep your website and users secure.

PHPAuth is work in progress, and not meant for people that don't know how to program, its meant for people that know what they are doing. We cannot help everyone because they don't understand this class.

IT'S NOT ONLY FOR BEGINNERS!

Features

• Authentication by email and password combination
• Uses bcrypt to hash passwords, a secure algorithm that uses an expensive key setup phase
• Uses an individual 128 bit salt for each user, pulled from /dev/urandom, making rainbow tables useless
• Uses PHP's PDO database interface and uses prepared statements meaning an efficient system, resilient against SQL injection
• Blocks (or verifies) attackers by IP for any defined time after any amount of failed actions on the portal
• No plain text passwords are sent or stored by the system
• Integrates easily into most existing websites, and can be a great starting point for new projects
• Easy configuration of multiple system parameters
• Allows sending emails via SMTP or sendmail
• Blocks disposable email addresses from registration

User actions

• Login
• Register
• Activate account
• Resend activation email
• Reset password
• Change password
• Change email address
• Delete account
• Logout

Requirements

• PHP 7.1+
• MySQL / MariaDB database or PostGreSQL database

Composer Support

PHPAuth can now be installed with the following command:

composer require phpauth/phpauth

Then: require '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

Installing without composer not recommended.

Configuration

The database table config contains multiple parameters allowing you to configure certain functions of the class.

• site_name : the name of the website to display in the activation and password reset emails
• site_url : the URL of the Auth root, where you installed the system, without the trailing slash, used for emails.
• site_email : the email address from which to send activation and password reset emails
• site_key : a random string that you should modify used to validate cookies to ensure they are not tampered with
• site_timezone : the timezone for correct DateTime values
• site_activation_page : the activation page name appended to the site_url in the activation email
• site_activation_page_append_code : 1 to append /key to the site_url in the activation email to simpler UX, a RESTful API should be implemented for this option
• site_password_reset_page : the password reset page name appended to the site_url in the password reset email
• site_password_reset_page_append_code : 1 to append /key to the site_url in the reset email to simpler UX, a RESTful API should be implemented for this option
• cookie_name : the name of the cookie that contains session information, do not change unless necessary
• cookie_path : the path of the session cookie, do not change unless necessary
• cookie_domain : the domain of the session cookie, do not change unless necessary
• cookie_samesite : the same-site setting of the cookie. It defaults to Strict, do not change unless necessary
• cookie_secure : the HTTPS-only setting of the session cookie, by default only allows calls over an HTTPS channel, do not change unless necessary
• cookie_http : the HTTP only protocol setting of the session cookie, true by default, do not change unless necessary
• cookie_remember : the time that a user will remain logged in for when ticking "remember me" on login. Must respect PHP's strtotime format.
• cookie_forget : the time a user will remain logged in when not ticking "remember me" on login. Must respect PHP's strtotime format.
• cookie_renew : the maximum time difference between session expiration and last page load before allowing the session to be renewed. Must respect PHP's strtotime format.
• allow_concurrent_sessions : Allow a user to have multiple active sessions (boolean). If false (default), logging in will end any existing sessions.
• bcrypt_cost : the algorithmic cost of the bcrypt hashing function, can be changed based on hardware capabilities
• smtp : 0 to use sendmail for emails, 1 to use SMTP
• smtp_debug : 0 to disable SMTP debugging, 1 to enable SMTP debugging, useful when you are having email/SMTP issues
• smtp_host : hostname of the SMTP server
• smtp_auth : 0 if the SMTP server doesn't require authentication, 1 if authentication is required
• smtp_username : the username for the SMTP server
• smtp_password : the password for the SMTP server
• smtp_port : the port for the SMTP server
• smtp_security : NULL for no encryption, tls for TLS encryption, ssl for SSL encryption
• verify_password_min_length : minimum password length, default is 3
• verify_email_min_length : minimum EMail length, default is 5
• verify_email_max_length : maximum EMail length, default is 100
• verify_email_use_banlist : use banlist while checking allowed EMails (see /files/domains.json), default is 1 (true)
• attack_mitigation_time : time used for rolling attempts timeout, default is +30 minutes. Must respect PHP's strtotime format.
• attempts_before_verify : maximum amount of attempts to be made within attack_mitigation_time before requiring captcha. Default is 5
• attempt_before_ban : maximum amount of attempts to be made within attack_mitigation_time before temporally blocking the IP address. Default is 30
• password_min_score : the minimum score given by zxcvbn that is allowed. Default is 3
• translation_source: source of translation, possible values: 'sql' (data from <table_translations> will be used), 'php' (default, translations will be loaded from languages/.php), 'ini' (will be used languages/.ini files)
• table_translations : name of the table with translation for all messages
• table_attempts : name of the table with all attempts (default is 'phpauth_attempts')
• table_requests : name of the table with all requests (default is 'phpauth_requests')
• table_sessions : name of the table with all sessions (default is 'phpauth_sessions')
• table_users : name of the table with all users (default is 'phpauth_users')
• table_emails_banned : name of the table with all banned email domains (default is 'phpauth_emails_banned')
• recaptcha_enabled: 1 for Google reCaptcha enabled, 0 - disabled (default)
• recaptcha_site_key: string, contains public reCaptcha key (for javascripts)
• recaptcha_secret_key: string, contains secret reCaptcha key

The rest of the parameters generally do not need changing.

CAPTCHA Implementation

If isBlocked() returns verify, then a CAPTCHA code should be displayed. The method checkCaptcha($captcha) is called to verify a CAPTCHA code. By default, this method returns true but should be overridden to verify a CAPTCHA.

For example, if you are using Google's ReCaptcha NoCaptcha, use the following code:

    private function checkCaptcha($captcha)
    {
 try {

        $url = 'https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify';
        $data = ['secret'   => 'your_secret_here',
            'response' => $captcha,
            'remoteip' => $this->getIp()];

        $options = [
            'http' => [
                'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
                'method'  => 'POST',
                'content' => http_build_query($data)
            ]
        ];

        $context  = stream_context_create($options);
        $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
        return json_decode($result)->success;
    }
    catch (\Exception $e) {
        return false;
    }
}

If a CAPTCHA is not to be used, please ensure to set attempt_before_block to the same value as attempts_before_verify.

Also, Auth::checkReCaptcha() method can be called.

How to secure a page

Making a page accessible only to authenticated users is quick and easy, requiring only a few lines of code at the top of the page:

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

$dbh = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=phpauth", "username", "password");

$config = new \PHPAuth\Config($dbh);
$auth   = new \PHPAuth\Auth($dbh, $config);

if (!$auth->isLogged()) {
    header('HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden');
    echo "Forbidden";

    exit();
}

NB: required package installed via composer: composer require phpauth/phpauth!!!

Validate user password in front-end

PHPAuth evaluates the strength of a password on user registration and manually added Users via addUser() function. The minimum score of accepted passwords is controlled via the password_min_score config-parameter.

In this example, the front-end is based on html, generated via php. The score is passed as a javascript variable like

<?php echo 'let minimum_score =' . $config->password_min_score; ?>

A full example can be found in the source: /examples/html-frontend-password-strength-gui-feedback/index.php

NB: requires a database with phpauth tables from database_defs

Custom config sources

By default, config defined at phpauth_config data table.

It is possible to define custom config from other sources: ini-file, other SQL-table or php-array:

Config($dbh, $config_source, $config_type, $config_language)

• config_source -
  • for 'sql': name of custom table with configuration
  • for 'ini': path and name of INI file (for example: '$/config/config.ini', '$' means application root)
  • for 'array': it is a array with configuration
• config_type:
  • 'sql' (or empty value) - load config from database,
  • 'ini' - config must be declared in INI file (sections can be used for better readability, but will not be parsed)
  • 'array' - config will be loaded from $config_source (type of array)
• config_language - custom language for site as locale value (default is 'en_GB')

Examples:

new Config($dbh); // load config from SQL table 'phpauth_config', language is 'en_GB'

new Config($dbh, 'my_config'); // load config from SQL table 'my_config', language is 'en_GB'

new Config($dbh, '$/config/phpauth.ini', 'ini'); // configuration will be loaded from INI file, '$' means Application basedir

new Config($dbh, $CONFIG_ARRAY, 'array'); // configuration must be defined in $CONFIG_ARRAY value

new Config($dbh, null, '', 'ru_RU'); // load configuration from default SQL table and use ru_RU locale

Message languages

The language for error and success messages returned by PHPAuth can be configured by passing in one of the available languages as the third parameter to the Auth constructor. If no language parameter is provided then the default en_GBlanguage is used.

Example:

$config = new \PHPAuth\Config($dbh, null, 'sql', 'fr_FR');
$auth   = new \PHPAuth\Auth($dbh, $config);

Available languages:

• ar-TN
• bs-BA
• cs_CZ
• da_DK
• de_DE
• en_GB (Default)
• es_MX
• fa_IR
• fr_FR
• gr_GR
• hu_HU
• id_ID
• it_IT
• nl_BE
• nl_NL
• no_NB
• pl_PL
• ps_AF
• pt_BR
• ro_RO
• ru_RU
• se_SE
• sk_SK
• sl_SI
• sr_RS
• th_TH
• tr_TR
• uk_UA
• vi_VN
• zh_CN
• zh_TW

NB: Since 1.3.5 the recommended way to connect another language is this: composer require phpauth/phpauth.l10n, then call before Auth instantiation:

$config = new \PHPAuth\Config($dbh, null, \PHPAuth\Config::CONFIG_TYPE_SQL);
$config = $config->setLocalization( (new \PHPAuth\PHPAuthLocalization('fr_FR'))->use() );
$auth   = new \PHPAuth\Auth($dbh, $config);

Documentation

All class methods are documented in the Wiki System error codes are listed and explained here

Contributing

Anyone can contribute to improve or fix PHPAuth, to do so you can either report an issue (a bug, an idea...) or fork the repository, perform modifications to your fork then request a merge.

Credits

• disposable - @lavab
• PHPMailer - @PHPMailer
• zxcvbn-php - @bjeavons

Donation

You can help with a donation, so we can rent servers to test on, we can tip our contributors as thank for their help.

Bitcoin: 1PrXRMb9R8GkSRB8wSJ2MWhF9cc6YXCS8w

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Nico 💻

Hajrudin 🌍

conver 💻

louis123562 📖

ANDRES TELLO 💻

张成林 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!