CAS Lib

CAS Lib, a standard PHP library for CAS authentication.

The Central Authentication Service (CAS) is an Open-Source single sign-on protocol for the web. Its purpose is to permit a user to access multiple applications while providing their credentials only once. It also allows web applications to authenticate users without gaining access to a user’s security credentials, such as a password. The name CAS also refers to a software package that implements this protocol.

For improving the flexibility and in order to maximize it, it is able to authenticate users and leaves the session handling up to the developer.

In order to foster a greater adoption of this library, it has been built with interoperability in mind. It only uses PHP Standards Recommendations interfaces.

  • PSR-4 for classes autoloading,

  • PSR-6 for caching,

  • PSR-7 for HTTP messages (requests, responses),

  • PSR-12 for coding standards,

  • PSR-15 for HTTP Server Request Handlers,

  • PSR-17 for HTTP messages factories,

  • PSR-18 for HTTP client.

Therefore, this library is framework agnostic and can be integrated in any PHP project, with any framework.