Passwordly

An absurdly simple package for generating and validating random requirement-based passwords for PHP.

Copyright (C) 2014 Brandon Fenning

Requirements

Compatible with PHP 5.3+

Installation

Add innoscience/passwordly to the composer.json file:

"require": {
    "innoscience/passwordly": "dev-master"
}

After this, run composer update

Usage

Passwordly is namespaced to innoscience/passwordly/passwordly, at the top of your file you'll want to use:

use Innoscience\Passwordly\Passwordly;

Creating passwords

When creating passwords, Passwordly first checks what the character requirements are. Any difference is made up with the addition of randomly cased alphanumeric characters.

#####Basic: generate random 8 character password, no symbols $password = Password::can()->generate(8);

#####Password with 1 - 3 symbols and 8 - 16 characters in length $password = Password::can()->hasSymbols(1,3)->generate(8, 16);

#####Password with at least 1 uppercase, lowercase and numeric character and 8 characters in length $password = Password::can()->hasLower(1)->hasNumbers(1)->hasUpper(1)->generate(8);

Checking password

#####Check that password has at least 1 number and upper case letter and is at least 8 characters in length $isOk = Password::can()->hasNumbers(1)->hasUpper(1)->hasLength(8)->check($password);

#####Check that password has no more than 1 to 3 numbers, 1 symbol and upper case letter and is at least 8 but not more than 16 characters in length $isOk = Password::can()->hasNumbers(1,3)->hasUpper(1)->hasSymbols(1)->hasLength(8,16)->strict()->check($password); When checking passwords, Passwordly does not use the maximum argument unless the ->strict() method is invoked.

#####Check password and get errors $passwordCheck = new Passwordly(); $isOk = $passwordCheck->hasNumbers(1)->hasUpper(1)->check($password); $errors = $passwordCheck->errors(); // # Returns array with each failed requirement

Details

Instantiating

Passwordly can be instantiated either via the Passwordly::can() static constructor or simply by calling new Passwordly. Reading the error messages requires access to the Passwordly instance, so chaining calls off of Passwordly::can() is not recommended for those use-cases.

Chainable Methods

• hasLower($min, $max = null) : The min/max number of lower-case characters that can be in a password.
• hasUpper($min, $max = null) : The min/max number of upper-case characters that can be in a password.
• hasNumbers($min, $max = null) : The min/max number of numeric characters that can be in a password.
• hasSymbols($min, $max = null) : The min/max number of non-alphanumeric characters that can be in a password.
• hasSpaces($min, $max = null) : The min/max number of spaces that can be in a password.
• hasLength($min, $max = null) : The min/max length of the password.
• strict() : Tells check() to also enforce the $max argument for all chainable methods

Final Methods

• generate($min, $max = null) : Generate a password of $min/$max size from the set requirements, returns a string
• check($password) : Check the password against the set requirements, returns true or false

Other Methods

• errors() : Returns an array of errors resulting from a ->check()

Utility Methods

These utility methods affect all instances of Passwordly when used.

• Passwordly::setLowerPool($characterPool) : Override the lower-case character pool
• Passwordly::setUpperPool($characterPool) : Override the upper-case character pool
• Passwordly::setNumberPool($characterPool) : Override the numeric character pool
• Passwordly::setSymbolPool($characterPool) : Override the symbol character pool
• Passwordly::getLowerPool() : Get the lower-case character pool
• Passwordly::getUpperPool() : Get the upper-case character pool
• Passwordly::getNumberPool() : Get the numeric character pool
• Passwordly::getSymbolPool() : Get the symbol character pool
• Passwordly::setDisableOpenssl($bool) : Passwordly uses the openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() function in php to generate random strings, if this is unavailable use this method and set it to TRUE to use a built-in alternative function.

Tests

Passwordly is fully unit tested. Tests are located in the tests directory of the Passwordly package and can be run with phpunit in the package's base directory.

License

Passwordly is licensed under GPLv2