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kianisanaullah/central-auth
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Central/shared DB users & roles for Laravel (configurable connection/tables).

v1.0.0(4mo ago)043MITPHPPHP ^8.2

Since Feb 13Pushed 4mo agoCompare

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Central Auth — Shared Users & Roles for Laravel

A lightweight package to use a centralized users/roles database across multiple Laravel projects or subdomains.

Perfect for organizations running many apps that need: • Single source of truth for users • Central role management • Seamless integration into new projects • Optional read-only access from apps • Role-based middleware

⸻

✨ Features • 🔐 Central users & roles from shared DB

```
•	🧩 Plug-and-play integration

•	⚙️ Fully configurable (connection, tables, columns)

•	🧠 Works with existing Laravel Auth

•	🛡 Role-based middleware (central.role)

•	🔄 Environment-driven model switching

•	🚫 No code changes required per project (if using AUTH_MODEL)

```

⸻

📦 Installation

1. Require package

```
composer require kianisanaullah/central-auth
```

2. Publish config

```
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=central-auth-config
php artisan optimize:clear
```

⚙️ Configuration

Add central DB connection

In your app config/database.php:

```
'mysql_auth' => [
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'host' => env('AUTH_DB_HOST'),
    'port' => env('AUTH_DB_PORT', 3306),
    'database' => env('AUTH_DB_DATABASE'),
    'username' => env('AUTH_DB_USERNAME'),
    'password' => env('AUTH_DB_PASSWORD'),
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'strict' => false,
],
```

Environment variables

```
# Enable central auth
CENTRAL_AUTH_ENABLED=true

# Use shared DB connection
CENTRAL_AUTH_SHARED_DB=true
CENTRAL_AUTH_CONNECTION=mysql_auth

# DB credentials (read-only recommended)
AUTH_DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
AUTH_DB_PORT=3306
AUTH_DB_DATABASE=central_auth
AUTH_DB_USERNAME=auth_app_test
AUTH_DB_PASSWORD=********

# Tell Laravel to use CentralUser model
AUTH_MODEL=Kiani\CentralAuth\Models\CentralUser
```

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance74

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

140d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c0cccd1ca113e6587b72a3e79bdb638b7311b1966157b376fe9366b700d015e6?d=identicon)[kianisanaullah](/maintainers/kianisanaullah)

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Top Contributors

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