README.md

Google Authenticator PHP class

• Copyright (c) 2012-2016, http://www.phpgangsta.de
• Author: Michael Kliewe, @PHPGangsta and contributors
• Licensed under the BSD License.

This PHP class can be used to interact with the Google Authenticator mobile app for 2-factor-authentication. This class can generate secrets, generate codes, validate codes and present a QR-Code for scanning the secret. It implements TOTP according to RFC6238

For a secure installation you have to make sure that used codes cannot be reused (replay-attack). You also need to limit the number of verifications, to fight against brute-force attacks. For example you could limit the amount of verifications to 10 tries within 10 minutes for one IP address (or IPv6 block). It depends on your environment.

Usage:

See following example:

<?php
require_once 'PHPGangsta/GoogleAuthenticator.php';

$ga = new PHPGangsta_GoogleAuthenticator();
$secret = $ga->createSecret();
echo "Secret is: ".$secret."\n\n";

$qrCodeUrl = $ga->getQRCodeGoogleUrl('Blog', $secret);
echo "Google Charts URL for the QR-Code: ".$qrCodeUrl."\n\n";

$oneCode = $ga->getCode($secret);
echo "Checking Code '$oneCode' and Secret '$secret':\n";

$checkResult = $ga->verifyCode($secret, $oneCode, 2);    // 2 = 2*30sec clock tolerance
if ($checkResult) {
    echo 'OK';
} else {
    echo 'FAILED';
}

Running the script provides the following output:

Secret is: OQB6ZZGYHCPSX4AK

Google Charts URL for the QR-Code: https://www.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&chld=M|0&cht=qr&chl=otpauth://totp/infoATphpgangsta.de%3Fsecret%3DOQB6ZZGYHCPSX4AK

Checking Code '848634' and Secret 'OQB6ZZGYHCPSX4AK':
OK

Installation:

• Use Composer to install the package

• From project root directory execute following

composer install

• Composer will take care of autoloading the library. Just include the following at the top of your file

  require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

Run Tests:

• All tests are inside tests folder.
• Execute composer install and then run the tests from project root directory
• Run as phpunit tests from the project root directory

ToDo:

• ??? What do you need?

Notes:

If you like this script or have some features to add: contact me, visit my blog, fork this project, send pull requests, you know how it works.