1. StrengthValidator
2. PasswordInput
3. Requirements
4. Installation
5. Usage
6. Report
7. License
8. Resources

This extension provides a couple of great password management utilities for Yii Framework 2.0. The extension allows password strength validation through your model. In addition, it provides an advanced password input widget, that allows you to display/hide text and show the password strength.

StrengthValidator ¶

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This is a password strength validator for your model attributes. The strength validator allows you to configure the following parameters for validating passwords or strings.

1. Whether password contains an username
2. Whether password contains an email string
3. Minimum number of characters
4. Maximum number of characters
5. Minimum number of lower space characters
6. Minimum number of upper space characters
7. Minimum number of numeric / digit characters
8. Minimum number of special characters

Other features:

1. Includes 5 presets (simple, normal, fair, medium, and strong). Instead of setting each parameter above, you can call a preset which will auto-set each of the parameters above.
2. It includes both server and client validation.
3. This can work with the PasswordInput widget (described next) as per your needs. The strength validation routines for both are a bit different. The PasswordInput widget focuses on displaying the strength only, and does not restrict the user input in any way.

Note: The StrengthValidator does not validate if the password field is required. You need to use Yii's required rule for this.

PasswordInput ¶

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The password input widget is a wrapper for the JQuery Strength meter plugin by Krajee. The plugin converts a password input into a widget with an advanced strength validation meter and toggle mask to show/hide the password. The widget displays a dynamic strength validation meter, which calculates the strength of the password as you type. You can configure the following options for the widget. This is an advanced password input widget with configurable options and a dynamic strength meter. The widget provides various features as mentioned below:

1. Allows you to show/ hide a password text (using bootstrap styled input addons). You can configure this option to be shown or not.
2. Allows you to display an advanced password strength meter to calculate and show your password strength as you type.
3. Allows you to control and position/style your meter based on templates.
4. A password strength meter consists of the meter bar, the score, and the verdict.
5. Uses Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 styling wherever possible with inbuilt Yii 2.0 ActiveField functionality.
6. Works independent and complements the StrengthValidator.

Requirements ¶

• Yii 2.0 (dev-master)
• PHP 5.4
• Twitter Bootstrap 3.0

NOTE: This extension mandatorily requires Yii Framework 2. The framework is under active development and the first stable release of Yii 2 is expected in early 2014.

Installation ¶

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run:

$ php composer.phar require kartik-v/yii2-password"dev-master"

or add:

"kartik-v/yii2-password": "dev-master"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage ¶

StrengthValidator ¶

// add this in your model
use kartik\password\StrengthValidator;

// use the validator in your model rules
public function rules() {
    return [
       	[['username', 'password'], 'required'],
       	[['password'], StrengthValidator::className(), 'preset'=>'normal', 'userAttribute'=>'username']
    ];
}

PasswordInput ¶

// add this in your view
use kartik\password\PasswordInput;
use kartik\widgets\ActiveForm; // optional

$form = ActiveForm::begin(['id' => 'login-form']);
echo $form->field($model,'username');
echo $form->field($model, 'password')->widget(PasswordInput::classname(), ['size'=>'lg']);

Report ¶

• Report any issues on the project page
• Use the forum page for any discussions on this extension

License ¶

yii2-password is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the bundled LICENSE.md for details.

Resources ¶

• Github Project
• Packagist Package
• Documentation & Demo