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zendframework/zend-expressive-authentication-session
====================================================

Username/password, session-backed authentication adapter for zend-expressive-authentication.

1.0.1(6y ago)429.5k10[2 issues](https://github.com/zendframework/zend-expressive-authentication-session/issues)1BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ^7.1

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zend-expressive-authentication-session
======================================

[](#zend-expressive-authentication-session)

> ## Repository abandoned 2019-12-31
>
> [](#repository-abandoned-2019-12-31)
>
> This repository has moved to [mezzio/mezzio-authentication-session](https://github.com/mezzio/mezzio-authentication-session).

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This library provides a [zend-expressive-authentication](https://github.com/zendframework/zend-expressive-authentication/)adapter that handles form-based username/password authentication credentials where the user details are subsequently stored in a session.

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

[](#installation)

Run the following to install this library:

```
$ composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-authentication-session
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Documentation is [in the doc tree](docs/book/), and can be compiled using [mkdocs](http://www.mkdocs.org):

```
$ mkdocs build
```

You may also [browse the documentation online](https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-expressive-authentication-session/).

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community25

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 63.2% 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 ~45 days

Recently: every ~116 days

Total

14

Last Release

2513d ago

Major Versions

0.3.1 → 1.0.0alpha12018-02-26

0.5.0 → 1.0.02018-09-27

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/296074?v=4)[Zend Framework](/maintainers/zendframework)[@zendframework](https://github.com/zendframework)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

AuthenticationZendFrameworkzfsessionexpressive

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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