JSON Web Token Authentication for Laravel

This package requires PHP >=5.4

Install via composer - edit your composer.json to require the package.

"require": {
    "tymon/jwt-auth": "0.3.*"
}

Then run composer update in your terminal to pull it in.

Once this has finished, you will need to add the service provider to the providers array in app/config/app.php as follows:

'Tymon\JWTAuth\JWTAuthServiceProvider'

Next, also in the app/config/app.php file, under the aliases array, you may want to add the JWTAuth facade.

'JWTAuth' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth'

Finally, you will want to publish the config using the following command:

$ php artisan config:publish tymon/jwt-auth

I have included a helper command to generate a key as follows:

$ php artisan jwt:generate

this will generate a new random key, which will be used to sign your tokens.

And you're done!

There are a number of ways you can generate a token. The usual flow would be to pass some credentials and the package will try to authenticate the user and return a fully formed JSON Web Token.

// simple example
Route::post('auth/login', function () {
    $credentials = Input::only('email', 'password');

    if ( ! $token = JWTAuth::attempt($credentials) )
    {
        // return 401 error response
    }

    return Response::json(compact('token'));
});

$user = User::find(1);
$token = JWTAuth::fromUser($user);

Once a user has "logged in" (e.g. provided their credentials via a login form) to your application, then the next step would be to make a subsequent request, with the token, to retrieve the users' details, so you can show them as being logged in.

To make authenticated requests, you will need to set an authorization header:

Authorization: Bearer {yourtokenhere}

Alternatively you can include the token via a query string

https://api.mysite.com/me?token={yourtokenhere}

// simple example
Route::post('me', function () {

    try
    {
        $user = JWTAuth::parseToken()->toUser();
    }
    catch(Tymon\JWTAuth\Exceptions\TokenExpiredException $e)
    {
        // token has expired
        return Response::json(['error' => 'token_expired'], 401);
    }

    if (! $user)
    {
        // user not found
        return Response::json(['error' => 'user_not_found'], 404);
    }

    return Response::json(compact('user'));
});

Alternatively, you can use the included jwt-auth route filter. It includes some sensible default responses when, for example, the token has expired or is invalid.

Route::post('me', ['before' => 'jwt-auth', function() {

    $user = JWTAuth::getToken()->toUser();

    return Response::json(compact('user'));
}]);

These responses can be overridden, by hooking into a series of events that are fired before the response is returned. Here are the events that can be fired during the filter.

// fired when the token could not be found in the request
Event::listen('tymon.jwt.absent');

// fired when the token has expired
Event::listen('tymon.jwt.expired');

// fired when the token is found to be invalid
Event::listen('tymon.jwt.invalid');

// fired if the user could not be found (shouldn't really happen)
Event::listen('tymon.jwt.user_not_found');

// fired when the token is valid (User is passed along with event)
Event::listen('tymon.jwt.valid');

// accepts an array of credentials e.g. email & password
JWTAuth::attempt($credentials);

// accepts a token and returns the authenticated user on success
JWTAuth::login($token);

// retrieves the token from the request
// (checks Authorization Bearer header and query string)
JWTAuth::getToken();

// accepts a token and returns the User object
JWTAuth::toUser($token);

// accepts a User, and returns a token
JWTAuth::fromUser($user);

// sets the token for the request
// further methods that require a token can then be chained
JWTAuth::setToken($token);

// returns the subject (sub) claim from the token
// (defaults to User id)
JWTAuth::getSubject($token);

// provides access to the underlying jwt provider
// returns a token
JWTAuth::encode($subject, $customClaims);

// decodes a token and returns the payload array
JWTAuth::decode($token);

• add more tests
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• finish docs!
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Copyright (c) 2014 Sean Tymon

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