PEPr: Latest proposals with status Proposed

PEPr Proposal [709]: HTTP::HTTP_Request

2015-01-09T15:54:08-05:00

Proposed package: HTTP::HTTP_Request

Proposer: Gonzalo Chumillas

A library for sending HTTP requests from the server side. For example:



<?php



// in this case we use a configuration object

$config = new HttpRequestConfig();

$config->setOption("follow_location", true);

$config->setOption("user_agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36");

$config->setContentTypeOption("charset", "iso-8859-1");



// sends a POST request to mysite.com and attaches some files

$req = new HttpRequestPost($config);

$req->setParam("action", "upload-image");

$req->setFormParam("image", new HttpRequestFormFile("/path/to/image.jpg"));

echo $req->send("http://www.mysite.com");

?>

PEPr Proposal [707]: Database::Database_dbQuery

2014-11-09T07:30:52-05:00

Proposed package: Database::Database_dbQuery

Proposer: Gonzalo Chumillas

With this library you can update multiple interrelated tables at the same time without writing separated SQL statements.

The following examples updates (or eventually inserts) a record in the table 'content' and the tables 'image', 'video' and 'file' at the same time:



<?php

// connects to the database

$db = new DbConnector("database", "username", "password");



// updates the record "content.id = 101"

$t = new DbTable($db, "content", 101);

$t->set("description", "Record description...");

$t->set("image.path", "/path/to/image.jpg");

$t->set("video.path", "/path/to/video.mp4");

$t->set("file.path", "/path/to/file.pdf");

$t->update();

?>

PEPr Proposal [706]: Web Services::Services_Tune

2014-10-23T10:37:11-05:00

Proposed package: Web Services::Services_Tune

Proposer: jeff tanner

An SDK for PHP developers to negotiate with Tune's API and generate service responses.

To use, developers will need to sign up for a MobileAppTracking account and retrieve API Key which can then be used to issue HTTP requests to the Tune API.

Full documentation is here:

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PEPr Proposal [703]: Authentication::Latchsdk

2014-03-07T17:53:14-05:00

Proposed package: Authentication::Latchsdk

Proposer: Eleven Paths

This SDK allows developers to integrate Latch on his/her PHP service. Latch is a service that lets end-users add an extra level of security to their online accounts and services.

With this version of the SDK, developers can pair and unpair users and check their latches status. For more information please visit https://latch.elevenpaths.com or the SDK page on GitHub https://github.com/ElevenPaths/latch-sdk-php

PEPr Proposal [702]: HTTP::HTTP_SimpleController

2014-02-14T22:29:59-05:00

Proposed package: HTTP::HTTP_SimpleController

Proposer: Gonzalo Chumillas

Sometimes we do not need to install a sophisticated framework. We just want a controller that handles user requests in a simple way. This is what SimpleController does.

For example:



<?php



$c = new SimpleController();

$c->on("start", function () use (&$db) {

    // this is a good place to initialize variables

    $db = new Database("dbname", "username", "xxx");

});

$c->on("get", function () use (&$username) {

    // this is a good place to initialize HTML forms

    $username = "<please enter your username here>";

});

$c->on("post", function () use (&$db, $username, $password) {

    // this is a good place to perform database operations

   $db->addUser($username, $password);

});

$c->on("end", function () use (&$db) {

    // this is a good place to close resources

    $db->close();

});



// triggers the events 'start', 'get' or 'post' and 'end'

$c->exec();

?>

PEPr Proposal [701]: HTTP::HTTP_Request2_Hawk

2014-02-08T17:16:58-05:00

Proposed package: HTTP::HTTP_Request2_Hawk

Proposer: Bertrand Mansion

This class is an Observer for signing HTTP_Request2 requests with an Hawk authentication header.

Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme using a message authentication code (MAC) algorithm to provide partial HTTP request cryptographic verification.

By using an Observer, it is really easy to add authentication to the requests. The MAC is added to the request headers transparently, just before the request is sent.

Questions :

- Should this be added to the main package or is it better to have it live on its own ?

Hawk is pretty new, but it is an important feature for consuming web APIs, especially in machine to machine environment which is where it shines compared to OAuth/OAuth2. We are going to use it for our own webservices in our apps, and it's being used by others as well (example : https://tent.io/docs/authentication). I think it should become more popular quickly, especially because OAuth is such a mess.

- Is an Observer the right way to do it ?

It works great, but it is the first time I use HTTP_Request2 (which is a nice package BTW), so there might be other ways.

Links :

- Hawk docs : https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk/

- Other valuable PHP implementation (with server as well) : https://github.com/dflydev/dflydev-hawk

- My Lua server implementation for Nginx : https://github.com/golgote/lua-resty-hawk

PEPr Proposal [700]: Database::DB_DbQuery

2013-11-01T21:48:06-05:00

Proposed package: Database::DB_DbQuery

Proposer: Gonzalo Chumillas

DbQuery lets us to act directly over a query as if it were a table in our database. For example:



<?php



// connects to the database

$db = new DbQuery("library_test", "root", "xxx");



// executes an SQL query

$row = $db->query("

select

    b.id as book_id,

    b.title,

    b.created_on,

    b.updated_on,

    a.id as author_id,

    a.name as author

from books as b

left join authors as a on a.id = b.author_id

where b.id = 11");



// updates the record

echo "Saving records ...\n";

$row->set("title", "Code Complete 2");

$row->set("author", "Steve McConnell");

$row->update();



// close the database connection

$db->close();

?>

I'm not completely satisfied with this package and I would like to know your opinion. I think the DbQuery class has too much methods and this is indicative of a poor design. I'm working on it in any case.

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PEPr Proposal [699]: Audio::MP3_Id3

2013-09-25T16:30:19-05:00

Proposed package: Audio::MP3_Id3

Proposer: Gemor Roj

Package for reading and writing MP3 tag Idv1 and Idv2.

PEPr Proposal [694]: Text::Text_RegExpTokenizer

2013-09-12T18:38:15-05:00

Proposed package: Text::Text_RegExpTokenizer

Proposer: Gonzalo Chumillas

The Tokenizer class is a small class that allows you to split a string into smaller pieces. Unlike other classes, it is based on regular patterns. Thanks to this, this class lets you to parse a string on the fly. For example:



<?php



// parses a basic SQL sentence

$t = new Tokenizer("Select Id, Name, Age From users Where Id = 101");

if ($t->match("select")) {

    // columns

    $columns = array();

    while (list($column) = $t->match("\w+")) {

        array_push($columns, $column);

        if (!$t->match(",")) {

            break;

        }

    }

    // 'from' clause

    if ($t->match("from\s+(\w+)", $matches)) {

        $table_name = $matches[1];

        echo "You want to get the columns " . implode(", ", $columns) . " from the table $table_name.\n";

    }

}

?>

PEPr Proposal [691]: Security::phprbac

2013-03-01T07:43:11-05:00

Proposed package: Security::phprbac

Proposer: Abbas Naderi

PHP RBAC is a standard NIST level 2 hierarchical role based access control implementation with extended features for PHP.

From website:

PHP-RBAC is the de-facto authorization library for PHP. It provides developers with NIST Level 2 Standard Role Based Access Control and more, in the fastest implementation yet.