PHP Throttle

PHP Throttle is a rate limiter for Zend / Laravel or PHP and was made and maintained by Muhamed Didovic and Goran Radosevic.

Installation

PHP Throttle requires PHP 5.5 and up

To get the latest version, simply require the project using Composer:

$ composer require muhamed-didovic/throttle

Usage

$config = [
    'cache.path' => '/tmp',
    'cache.driver' => 'file',
    'limit' => 10,
    'time' => 1,
    'routes' => [
        [
            'url' => '/signup',
            'limit' => 10
        ],
        [
            'url' => '/signin',
            'limit' => 3,
        ],
        [
            'url' => '/signin',
            'limit' => 2,
            'method' => 'POST'
        ]
    ]
];

$throttle = (new ThrottleApp($config))->getThrottle();

if (!$throttle->attempt($request)) {
    echo "Rate limit exceeded. Please wait " . 60 . " sec."; die;
}

Please note that $request can be different for different systems

ZEND

• $request is an instance of Zend_Controller_Request_Http

LARAVEL

• $request is na instance of Illuminate\Http\Request

Array

• $request is an array

$request = [
   'ip' => '127.0.0.1',
   'method' => 'POST',
   'route' => '/example-page'
];

Object

• $request is an object

$request = (object)[
   'ip' => '127.0.0.1',
   'method' => 'POST',
   'route' => '/example-page'
];

Configuration Parameters

All configuration parameters are optional. Add your own to override the defaults.

cache.path

Path to the cache folder. "/tmp" by default

cache.driver

Currently we support only "file" driver type

limit

The number of allowed hits in a period of time. Default: 100

time

A period of time, in minutes where we check for attempts. Default 1, minute.

routes

Add here specific routes to check. All other routes will not be used against throttle. If you don't provide this parameter, all routes will be checked against throttle