camspiers / php-ssh

An experimental object oriented SSH api in PHP

PHP SSH

Provides an object-oriented wrapper for the php ssh2 extension.

Requirements

You need PHP version 5.3+ with the SSH2 extension.

Installation

Download the php-ssh library files in your project. If your project is versioned using git, the best is to add it as a submodule:

$ git submodule add https://github.com/Herzult/php-ssh.git vendor/php-ssh

Then, you must add it to your autoloader. If you have no autoloader, you can use the one provided with the library. Here is an exemple of how to use it:

<?php

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/php-ssh/src/ClassLoader/UniversalClassLoader.php';

use ClassLoader\UniversalClassLoader;

$loader = new UniversalClassLoader();
$loader->registerNamespaces(array(
    'Ssh' => __DIR__.'/vendor/php-ssh/src'
));

$loader->register();

Installation (via composer)

Download composer. Install php-ssh using composer:

$ php composer.phar install

Usage

Configuration of the connection

To etablish an SSH connection, you must firt define its configuration. For that, create a Configuration instance with all the needed parameters.

<?php

// simple configuration to connect "my-host"
$configuration = new Ssh\Configuration('my-host');

Create a session

The session is the central access point to the SSH functionality provided by the library.

<?php

// ... the configuration creation

$session = new Ssh\Session($configuration);

Authentication

The authentication classes allow you to authenticate over a SSH session. When you define an authentication for a session, it will authenticate on connection.

<?php

$configuration = new Ssh\Configuration('myhost');
$authentication = new Ssh\Authentication\Password('John', 's3cr3t');

$session = new Session($configuration, $authentication);

The available authentication are:

• None for username based authentication
• Password for password authentication
• PublicKeyFile to authenticate using a public key
• HostBasedFile to authenticate using a public hostkey
• Agent to authenticate using an ssh-agent

Subsystems

Once you are authenticated over a SSH session, you can use the subsystems.

Sftp

You can easily access the sftp subsystem of a session using the getSftp() method:

<?php

// the session creation

$sftp = $session->getSftp();

See the Ssh\Sftp class for more details on the available methods.

Publickey

The session provides also the getPublickey() method to access the publickey subsystem:

<?php

// ... the session creation

$publickey = $session->getPublickey();

See the Ssh\Publickey class for more details on the available methods.