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psecio/gatekeeper
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A simple PHP authentication and authorization library

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Gatekeeper: An Authentication & Authorization Library
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[](#gatekeeper-an-authentication--authorization-library)

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The Gatekeeper library is a simple drop-in library that can be used to manage users, permissions and groups for your application. The goal is to make securing your application as simple as possible while still providing a solid and secure foundation to base your user system around.

Gatekeeper is best classified as a Role-Base Access Control (RBAC) system with users, groups and permissions. It is framework-agnostic and is set up to use its own database for the user handling.

**More Information:** For more information on the library, please see [the official project documentation](http://gatekeeper-auth.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).

###  Health Score

40

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FairBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity36

Limited adoption so far

Community27

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.4% 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 ~18 days

Recently: every ~89 days

Total

32

Last Release

3640d ago

Major Versions

0.7 → 1.02014-12-17

1.9.1 → 2.02015-01-27

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

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