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evoluted/php-ratelimiter
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A framework agnostic rate limiter for PHP

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PHP Ratelimiter
===============

[](#php-ratelimiter)

A framework independent, flexible and highly extensible rate limiter for PHP.

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Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### With Composer

[](#with-composer)

It is best installed it through [packagist](http://packagist.org/packages/sunspikes/php-ratelimiter)by including `sunspikes/php-ratelimiter` in your project composer.json require:

```
    "require": {
        "sunspikes/php-ratelimiter":  "dev-master"
    }
```

### Without Composer

[](#without-composer)

You can also download it from \[Github\] (), but no autoloader is provided so you'll need to register it with your own PSR-4 compatible autoloader.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Overview

[](#overview)

```
// 1. Make a rate limiter with limit 3 attempts in 10 minutes
$cacheAdapter = new DesarrollaCacheAdapter((new DesarrollaCacheFactory())->make());
$ratelimiter = new RateLimiter(new ThrottlerFactory(), new HydratorFactory(), $cacheAdapter, 3, 600);

// 2. Get a throttler for path /login
$loginThrottler = $ratelimiter->get('/login');

// 3. Register a hit
$loginThrottler->hit()

// 4. Check if it reached the limit
if ($loginThrottler->check()) {
    // access permitted
} else {
    // access denied
}

// Or combine the steps 3 & 4
if ($loginThrottler->access()) {
    // access permitted
} else {
    // access denied
}

// To get the number of hits
print $loginThrottler->count(); // or count($throttler)
```

### Configuration

[](#configuration)

By default PHP Ratelimiter uses the [desarolla2 cache adapter](https://github.com/desarrolla2/Cache), the sample configuration provided in `config/config.php`

You can configure the drivers in `config.php`, for example to use memcache change the driver to `'memcache'`

```
return [
    'default_ttl' => 3600,
    'driver'      => 'memcache',
    'memcache' => [
        //....
    ],
];
```

### Extending

[](#extending)

The PHP Ratelimiter is highly extensible, you can have custom adapters by implementing `Sunspikes\Ratelimit\Cache\Adapter\CacheAdapterInterface`

For example to use Doctrine cache adapter

```
class DoctrineCacheAdapter implements CacheAdapterInterface
{
    public function __construct($cache)
    {
        $this->cache = $cache;
    }

    // Implement the methods
}

// Build adapter using APC cache driver
$adapter = new DoctrineCacheAdapter(new \Doctrine\Common\Cache\ApcCache());
```

Also you can have custom hydrators by implementing `Sunspikes\Ratelimit\Throttle\Hydrator\DataHydratorInterface`

For example to use a Symfony Request object instead of custom URL for ratelimiting

```
class RequestHydrator implements DataHydratorInterface
{
    public function hydrate($data, $limit, $ttl)
    {
        // Make the key string
        $key = $data->getClientIp() . $data->getPathInfo();

        return new Data($key, $limit, $ttl);
    }
}

// Hydrate the request to Data object
$hydrator = new RequestHydrator();
```

Then decorate or extend the HydratorFactory to recognize your data

```
use Hydrator\FactoryInterface;

class MyHydratorFactory implements FactoryInterface
{
    private $defaultFactory;

    public function __construct(FactoryInterface $defaultFactory)
    {
        $this->defaultFactory = $defaultFactory;
    }

    public function make($data)
    {
        if ($data instanceof Request) {
            return new RequestHydrator();
        }

        return $this->defaultFactory->make($data);
    }
}
```

Author
------

[](#author)

Krishnaprasad MG \[@sunspikes\]

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please feel free to send pull requests.

License
-------

[](#license)

This is an open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity31

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~70 days

Recently: every ~75 days

Total

6

Last Release

3554d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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---

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