ethercreative/yii2-ip-ratelimiter

Allow guest clients to be rate limited, using their IP as the identifier.

1.0 2016-04-29 16:22 UTC

MIT

• Matt Edmonston

• yii2
• ratelimiter

README

yii2-ip-ratelimiter

Allow guest clients to be rate limited, using their IP as the identifier.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require ethercreative/yii2-ip-ratelimiter "1.*"

or add

"ethercreative/yii2-ip-ratelimiter": "1.*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

Modify the bahavior method of the controller you want to rate limit

public function behaviors()
{
	$behaviors = parent::behaviors();
	$behaviors['rateLimiter'] = [
		// Use class
		'class' => \ethercreative\ratelimiter\RateLimiter::className(),

		// The maximum number of allowed requests
		'rateLimit' => 100,

		// The time period for the rates to apply to
		'timePeriod' => 600,

		// Separate rate limiting for guests and authenticated users
		// Defaults to true
		// - false: use one set of rates, whether you are authenticated or not
		// - true: use separate ratesfor guests and authenticated users
		'separateRates' => false,

		// Whether to return HTTP headers containing the current rate limiting information
		'enableRateLimitHeaders' => false,
	];
	return $behaviors;
}