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A PHP package demonstrating the use of delegated authentication in Bit6.

Prerequisites

Get the API Key and Secret at Bit6 Dashboard.

Install via Composer

To incorporate into your current project simply run:

$ composer.phar require bit6/bit6-token-generator-php

Generating Tokens

Create token generator:

// Ideally pull variables by parsing ini file or from env
$apiKey = 'API_KEY';  
$apiSecret = 'API_SECRET';

// Create new TokenGenerator
$bit6_tg = new Bit6\TokenGenerator($apiKey, $apiSecret);

Get identities from your app following internal authentication.
Generate token using one of the following options:

Option 1: Using a string to represent an identity URI

$identities = "mailto:user@test.com";

// Generate token
$token = $bit6_tg->createToken($identities);

Option 2: Using an indexed array of identity URIs

$identities = array("usr:john123", "tel:12345678901");

// Generate token
$token = $bit6_tg->createToken($identities);

Option 3: Using an associative array of options

$options = array(
  "identities" => array("usr:john123", "mailto:user@test.com"),
  "issued" => 1468709885,
  "expires" => 1468796285
);

// Generate token
$token = $bit6_tg->createToken($options);

Create Token Options

The createToken method can be called with an associative array with the following keys:

identities (required) - A string or array of strings of identity URIs as shown below. When an array is used the first value becomes the primary identity.

issued (optional) - The unix timestamp at which token was generated (default - current system time)
expires (optional) - The unix timestamp at which the token will expire (default - 10 minutes from time of creation)

Authentication

Pass the token to browser using your preferred method eg. via JSON response, url or inline-script.

Authenticate user in javascript (after loading bit6.min.js) as shown below:

  // Authenticate with external token
  b6.session.external(token, function(err) {
    if (err) {
      // Houston we have a problem!
      console.log('Token login error', err);
    }
    else {
      // Code to run post authentication
      console.log('Token login successful');
    }
  });
</script>

Using example code

Running Locally

$ git clone git@github.com:bit6/bit6-token-generator-php.git
$ cd bit6-token-generator-php
$ composer update

Specify your Bit6 API key and secret using environment variables or a local .env config file. The file should contain two lines:

BIT6_API_KEY=abc
BIT6_API_SECRET=xyz

Start the application

$ php -S localhost:5000 -t example/
# Alternatively run:
# heroku local

Your app should now be running on localhost:5000.

Deploying to Heroku

Make sure you have the Heroku Toolbelt installed.

$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master

Set Bit6 API key and secret:

$ heroku config:set BIT6_API_KEY=abc
$ heroku config:set BIT6_API_SECRET=xyz

Generating a Token

You would normally generate an external token by doing a POST from your app client to your application server. To simulate this using curl:

curl -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"identities": ["usr:john","tel:+12123331234"]}' \
    http://localhost:5000/auth.php

The response should be a JSON object:

{
    "ext_token": "..."
}

Documentation

For more information about using PHP on Heroku, see these Dev Center articles:

Getting Started with PHP on Heroku

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