A PHP extension for JSON Web Token (JWT)

Requirement

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/cdoco/php-jwt.git
$ cd php-jwt
$ phpize && ./configure --with-openssl=/path/to/openssl
$ make && make install

Quick Example

$key = "example_key";
$claims = array(
 "data" => [
 "name" => "ZiHang Gao",
 "admin" => true
 ],
 "iss" => "http://example.org",
 "sub" => "1234567890",
);
// default HS256 algorithm
$token = jwt_encode($claims, $key);
echo $token . PHP_EOL;
//eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.
//eyJpc3MiOiJodHRwOlwvXC9leGFtcGxlLm9yZyIsInN1YiI6IjEyMzQ1Njc4OTAiLCJuYW1lIjoiWmlIYW5nIEdhbyIsImFkbWluIjp0cnVlfQ.
//2lFeBTsRegsjXiBCZNkW41KFlsZPSFu7KTsyAM9lUiQ
print_r(jwt_decode($token, $key));
/**
Array
(
 [data] => Array
 (
 [name] => ZiHang Gao
 [admin] => 1
 )

 [iss] => http://example.org
 [sub] => 1234567890
)
*/

Example

Benchmarks

Methods

//encode
string jwt_encode(array $claims, string $key [, string $alg = 'HS256'])
//decode
array jwt_decode(string $token, string $key [, string $alg = 'HS256'])

The algorithm of support

License