klsoft/yii3-keycloak-authz

The package provides Keycloak authorization for the web service APIs of Yii 3.

1.0.0 2026-01-11 10:39 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• psr/container: ^1.0 || ^2.0
• psr/http-factory: ^1.0
• psr/http-message: ^1.0 || ^2.0
• psr/http-server-handler: ^1.0
• psr/http-server-middleware: ^1.0
• yiisoft/http: ^1.2
• yiisoft/router: ^4

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• yii3 keycloak authorization

README

The package provides Keycloak authorization for the web service APIs of Yii 3.

See also:

• YII3-JWT-AUTH - The package provides a Yii 3 authentication method based on a JWT token
• PHP-KEYCLOAK-CLIENT - A PHP library that can be used to secure web applications with Keycloak

Requirement

• PHP 8.0 or higher.

Installation

composer require klsoft/yii3-keycloak-authz

How does it work

1. A client requests a protected web service API method using an access token.
2. The web service checks whether the access token contains the necessary permissions. If permissions exist, proceed to step 6.
3. The web service obtains a permission ticket using the access token and the permissions of the API method. It then responds with the permission ticket: HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: UMA realm="realm name", as_uri="realm URI", ticket="permission ticket"
4. The client obtains a Requesting Party Token (RPT) using the access token and the permission ticket.
5. The client requests a protected web service API method with the RPT.
6. The web service checks the RPT permissions.

How to use

1. Implement Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\KeycloakRepositoryInterface

Example:

namespace MyNamespace;

use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\KeycloakRepositoryInterface;
use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\PermissionTicketResult;
use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\PermissionTicketResponse;

class KeycloakRepository implements KeycloakRepositoryInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private string $realm,
        private string $realmUri)
    {
    }

    function getPermissionTicket(string $accessToken, array $permissions): PermissionTicketResult
    {
        $url = "$this->realmUri/authz/protection/permission";

        $options = [
            'http' => [
                'ignore_errors' => true,
                'method' => 'POST',
                'header' => [
                    'Content-type: application/json',
                    "Authorization: Bearer $accessToken"],
                'content' => json_encode($permissions)
            ],
        ];
        $responseData = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($options));
        $responseStatusCode = $this->getHttpResponseStatusCode($http_response_header[0]);
        if (!empty($responseData)) {
            $responseArr = json_decode($responseData, true);
            if (isset($responseArr['ticket'])) {
                return new PermissionTicketResult(new PermissionTicketResponse(
                    $this->realm, 
                    $this->realmUri, 
                    $responseArr['ticket']));
            }
            return new PermissionTicketResult(null, $responseStatusCode, $responseArr);
        }

        return new PermissionTicketResult(null, $responseStatusCode);
    }

    private function getHttpResponseStatusCode(string $responseHeader): int
    {
        if (preg_match("/^HTTP\/[\d.]+\s+(\d{3})\s.*$/", $responseHeader, $matches)) {
            return intval($matches[1]);
        }
        return 0;
    }
}

2. Add the realm and the realm URI to param.php

Example:

return [
    'realm' => 'myrealm',
    'realmUri' => 'http://localhost:8080/realms/myrealm',
];

3. Register dependencies

Example:

use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\KeycloakRepositoryInterface;

KeycloakRepositoryInterface::class => [
        'class' => KeycloakRepository::class,
        '__construct()' => [
            'realm' => $params['realm'],
            'realmUri' => $params['realmUri']
        ]
    ]

4. Apply permissions.

4.1. To an action.

First, add Authorization to the application middlewares:

use Yiisoft\Auth\Middleware\Authentication;
use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\Middleware\Authorization;

Application::class => [
        '__construct()' => [
            'dispatcher' => DynamicReference::to([
                'class' => MiddlewareDispatcher::class,
                'withMiddlewares()' => [
                    [
                        Authentication::class,
                        Authorization::class,
                        FormatDataResponseAsJson::class,
                        static fn() => new ContentNegotiator([
                            'application/xml' => new XmlDataResponseFormatter(),
                            'application/json' => new JsonDataResponseFormatter(),
                        ]),
                        ErrorCatcher::class,
                        static fn(ExceptionResponderFactory $factory) => $factory->create(),
                        RequestBodyParser::class,
                        Router::class,
                        NotFoundMiddleware::class,
                    ],
                ],
            ]),
        ],
    ]

Then, apply permissions to an action:

use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\Permission;
use Yiisoft\Http\Header;
use Yiisoft\Http\Status;

final class ProductController
{
    public function __construct(private ProductPresenterInterface $productPresenter)
    {
    }

    #[Permission(
        'product',
        ['create']
    )]
    public function create(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface
    {
        return $this->productPresenter->createProduct($request);
    }
}

Example of a permission with claims:

#[Permission(  
    'product',  
    ['create'],  
    ['organization' => ['acme']]  
)]
public function create(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface

Example of a permission with an executing claim value:

#[Permission(  
    'product',  
    ['create'],  
    ['organization' => [  
        '__container_entry_identifier',  
        'organizationRepository',  
        'getCurrent',  
        ['__request']]  
    ]  
)]
public function create(ServerRequestInterface $request): ResponseInterface

4.2. To a route.

First, define the set of permissions:

use Psr\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\Middleware\Authorization;
use Klsoft\Yii3KeycloakAuthz\Permission;

'SomePermissions' => static function (ContainerInterface $container) {
        return $container
            ->get(Authorization::class)
            ->withPermissions([
                new Permission('product', ['create']),
                new Permission('product', ['update'])
            ]);
    }

Then, you can apply this set to:

• A route:

Route::post('/product/create')
       ->middleware('SomePermissions')
       ->action([ProductController::class, 'create'])
       ->name('product/create')

• A group of routes:

Group::create()
      ->middleware('SomePermissions')
      ->routes(
          Route::post('/product/create')
              ->action([ProductController::class, 'create'])
              ->name('product/create'),
          Route::put('/product/update/{id}')
              ->action([ProductController::class, 'update'])
              ->name('product/update')
      )

• All routes in the application:

use Yiisoft\Auth\Middleware\Authentication;

Application::class => [
        '__construct()' => [
            'dispatcher' => DynamicReference::to([
                'class' => MiddlewareDispatcher::class,
                'withMiddlewares()' => [
                    [
                        Authentication::class,
                        'SomePermissions',
                        FormatDataResponseAsJson::class,
                        static fn() => new ContentNegotiator([
                            'application/xml' => new XmlDataResponseFormatter(),
                            'application/json' => new JsonDataResponseFormatter(),
                        ]),
                        ErrorCatcher::class,
                        static fn(ExceptionResponderFactory $factory) => $factory->create(),
                        RequestBodyParser::class,
                        Router::class,
                        NotFoundMiddleware::class,
                    ],
                ],
            ]),
        ],
    ]