php-casbin/php-casbin

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PHP-Casbin is a powerful and efficient open-source access control library for PHP projects that enforces authorization based on models like ACL, RBAC, and ABAC. It is the PHP implementation of the cross-language Casbin ecosystem, with policies loadable from files or databases via adapters.

Use cases

• add role-based access control (RBAC) to a PHP application
• enforce ACL permissions on API endpoints
• implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) in PHP
• store authorization policies in MySQL or PostgreSQL
• manage role hierarchies and permissions in Laravel or other PHP frameworks
• switch authorization models by editing a config file instead of code

When to choose

• you need flexible, model-driven authorization in a PHP project
• you want support for multiple access control models (ACL, RBAC, ABAC) in one library
• you need policy persistence across many storage backends via adapters
• you want API consistency with other Casbin language implementations

When to avoid

• you only need simple hardcoded role checks with no policy management
• your project is not in PHP
• you need authentication (login/identity) rather than authorization - Casbin does not handle that

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authorization auth middleware security web-development backend developer-tools php rbac acl abac access-control permissions casbin policy-enforcement

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