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programster/saml
================

A library to help with interfacing with a SAML SSO. This does so by wrapping around the onelogin/php-saml package.

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SAML Helper
===========

[](#saml-helper)

A package to help with integrating with a SAML SSO.

Example Usage
-------------

[](#example-usage)

All of the examples require first creating the SAML "client" which has all of the settings. One must create it like so:

```
$spConfig = new Programster\Saml\ServiceProviderConfig(
    entityId: APP_SERVICE_PROVIDER_IDENTITY,
    name: APP_SERVICE_PROVIDER_NAME,
    description: "A test service provider",
    loginHandlerUrl: APP_URL . "/auth/saml-login-handler",
    logoutHandlerUrl: APP_URL . "/auth/saml-logout-handler",
    publicCert: file_get_contents(SERVICE_PROVIDER_CERT_PATH),
    privateKey: file_get_contents(SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH)
);

$idpConfig = new \Programster\Saml\IdentityProviderConfig(
    entityId: IDENTITY_PROVIDER_IDENTITY_URI,
    authUrl: IDENTITY_PROVIDER_AUTH_URL,
    logoutUrl: IDENTITY_PROVIDER_LOGOUT_URL,
    publicSigningCertificates: [file_get_contents(IDENTITY_PROVIDER_PUBLIC_SIGNING_CERT)],
);

$samlConfig = new \Programster\Saml\SamlConfig($spConfig, $idpConfig);
$samlClient = new \Programster\Saml\SamlClient($samlConfig);
```

I know that seems a bit long-winded, but the client requires a lot of settings to be configured, and I prefer this over expecting the developer to just pass in an array of key/value pairs and expecting them to know what keys they need to set etc.

Once you have the SAML client, you can use it for handling all the requests/responses like so:

Send the user with a signed SAML request to the SSO to log in and then get redirected back to our site with their information:

```
$returnToURL = "https://localhost/saml-login-handler";
$samlClient->handleUserLoginRequest($returnToURL);
```

Then use the client to handle the response from the SSO logging in and redirecting back to our site with the user's details:

```
$response = $samlClient->handleSamlLoginResponse();
$userAttributes = $response->getUserAttributes();
$userEmail = $userAttributes['email'][0];
```

Use the client to send a logout request to the SSO:

```
$returnToUrl = 'http://my.domain.com/auth/saml-logout-handler';
$samlClient->handleUserLogoutRequest($returnToUrl);
```

Handle the response from the SSO for that logout request:

```
$ssoLoggedOutUrl = $samlClient->handleSamlLogoutResponse();
```

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.5% 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 ~13 days

Recently: every ~52 days

Total

22

Last Release

1508d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → 2.0.12021-08-20

1.1.0 → 2.1.12021-08-31

1.1.1 → 2.1.22021-09-23

1.2.0 → 2.2.02021-10-20

1.3.1 → 2.3.12022-05-18

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.1PHP >=8.0.0

1.0.1PHP >=7.4.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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