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pmaglione/lightsaml
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Light SAML2 php library

1.0.9(11y ago)0541MITPHPPHP >=5.3.3

Since Dec 4Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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SAML 2.0 PHP Component
======================

[](#saml-20-php-component)

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LightSaml Implements basic SAML 2.0 data model classes, serialization/deserialization to/from xml with XML security and certificates support, and message encapsulations to bindings. Covered with unit tests.

- [PHP SAML Symfony2 Bundle](https://github.com/aerialship/SamlSPBundle)

DOCUMENTATION
=============

[](#documentation)

- [Usage](doc/index.md)
- [Console](doc/console.md)
- [Signing and Certificates](doc/signing_and_certificates.md)

CONTRIBUTING
============

[](#contributing)

LightSaml is an open source project and is open for contributions.

CREDIT
======

[](#credit)

Thanks to all contributors and specially to SimpleSamlPHP open source which though hardly reusable helped us in start to understand better how SAML works and speed up the implementation.

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 83.2% 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 ~38 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

10

Last Release

4197d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c4a639a904ad14c75f11a19691269f884590bdfb36a53bdaf227696a1e6893ca?d=identicon)[pmaglione](/maintainers/pmaglione)

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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