We’ve open sourced Sentinel now and forever. We hope you choose to support further development.
UPDATE: With 10 days left we’ve simplified our message, simplified our goals.
Application security is a fundamental aspect of application design. Funding this campaign allows us to create not only the tools, but the education material developers crave.
- We’ll open source Sentinel (done).
- We’ll refactor Sentinel documentation from the ground up. Using multiple use case examples.
- We’ll create tutorials in “recipe” format that contextualize best practices going beyond the how, and answer the why using real scenarios.
- We’ll create a training demo. An installable application with thorough doc blocks that explain the what and why.
- We’ll create a site, devoted to the discussion and resources.
What is Sentinel exactly?
Sentinel is a powerful role based authentication and authorization PHP library available as a composer package. It’s the successor of our much older yet popular open source Sentry project.
- Authentication.
- Authorization.
- Registration.
- Users.
- Roles.
- Driver based permission system.
- Activation scenarios.
- Reminders (password reset).
- Multiple sessions.
- Interface driven.
- Single or multiple persistences.
- Persistence meta-data.
- Multiple login attributes.
- Custom checkpoints.
- Selective checkpoints.
- Custom hashing strategies.
- Driver-based permissions.
- Advanced inter-account throttling with DDoS protection.
- User impersonation.
Premium Add-ons
Sentinel optionally has useful add-ons that extend core functionality. While Sentinel Core will always remain open source, You’ll have a chance to receive these through the appropriate perks.
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Sentinel Social: provides an OAuth 1/2 Provider implementation
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Sentinel Expiring-Permissions: set expiration periods on permissions.
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Sentinel Unique-Passwords: prevents setting the same password more than once.
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Sentinel Two-factor: adds two-factor authorization support.
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Sentinel Multi-tenancy: SAAS, Organizations capability.
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Sentinel Server: adds ability for sentinel to act as an OAuth2 server.
How We Develop
We’re a framework agnostic company and will develop smart to ensure Sentinel…
- Follows semantic versioning. No exceptions.
- Is compliant with the PSR-1, PSR-2 and PSR-4 to ensure a high level of interoperability between shared PHP code.
- Is framework agnostic, allowing developers to create implementations for their favorite framework of choice.
Perks
Considering the sponsor and/or corporate sponsor perk? The Sentinel/Sentry ecosystem receives over 20,000 unique page views a month. Traffic that directly corresponds to developers. Seriously considering? Message us for specific analytics.
