Learning SimpleSAMLphp (1)

This article introduces SimpleSAMLphp.

Prerequisites

Knowledge

• Some knowledge of Security Assertion Markup Language
• Some knowledge of PHP

Environment

• Some webserver capable of executing PHP scripts.
• PHP version >= 5.3.0.
• Support for the following PHP extensions:
  • Always required: date, dom, hash, libxml, openssl, pcre, SPL, zlib, mcrypt
  • When authenticating against LDAP server: ldap
  • When authenticating against RADIUS server: radius
  • When saving session information to memcache-server: memcache
  • When using database:
    • Always: PDO
    • Database driver: (mysql, pgsql, ...)

What actual packages are required for the various extensions varies between different platforms and distributions.

See Prerequisites.

Download

SimpleSAMLphp packages

Packages with the current simpleSAMLphp versions:

• Download

Git repository

The core library handling the basic SAML stuff (messages, bindings, and so on) has been detached from SimpleSAMLphp, and can now be found in github:

• simplesamlphp/saml2

SimpleSAMLphp itself has been moved to github too, and you will find it here:

• simplesamlphp/simplesamlphp

See also Instructions to install from the repository.

Configure and install

See SimpleSAMLphp Installation and Configuration.

See also

• Security Assertion Markup Language
• SimpleSAMLphp