README

This library requires a minimum PHP version of 8.0

This is the PHP library for generating JWTs to use Vonage's API. To use this, you'll need a Vonage account. Sign up for free at vonage.com/dashboard.

• Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Contributing

Installation

To use the client library you'll need to have created a Vonage account.

To install the PHP client library to your project, we recommend using Composer.

composer require vonage/jwt

You don't need to clone this repository to use this library in your own projects. Use Composer to install it from Packagist.

If you're new to Composer, here are some resources that you may find useful:

• Composer's Getting Started page from Composer project's documentation.
• A Beginner's Guide to Composer from the good people at ScotchBox.

Usage

If you're using Composer, make sure the autoloader is included in your project's bootstrap file:

require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

Create a Token Generator with the Application ID and Private Key of the Vonage Application you want to access:

$generator = new Vonage\JWT\TokenGenerator('d70425f2-1599-4e4c-81c4-cffc66e49a12', file_get_contents('/path/to/private.key'));

You can then retrieve a generated JWT token by calling the generate() method on the Token Generator:

$token = $generator->generate();

This will return a string token that can be used for Bearer Authentication to Vonage APIs that require JWTs.

Examples

Generating a token with a specific Time To Live

By default, Vonage JWT tokens are generated with an Time To Live, or TTL, of 15 minutes after generation. In cases where the token lifetime should be different, you can override this setting by calling the setTTL() method on the Token Generator and passing the length of seconds that the token should be valid for

$generator->setTTL(30 * 60); // Set expiration to 30 minutes after token creation

Setting ACLs

Vonage JWTs will default to full access to all of the paths for an application, but this may not be desirable for cases where clients may need restricted access. You can specify the paths that a JWT token is valid for by using the setPaths() or addPath() methods to set the path information in bulk, or add individual paths in a more fluent interface.

// Set paths in bulk
$generator->setPaths([
    '/*/users/**',
    '/*/conversations/**'
]);

// Set paths individually
$generator->addPath('/*/users/**');
$generator->addPath('/*/conversations/**');

For more information on assigning ACL information, please see How to generate JWTs on the Vonage Developer Platform

Contributing

This library is actively developed and we love to hear from you! Please feel free to create an issue or open a pull request with your questions, comments, suggestions and feedback.