Getting Started

Server Requirements

Before using Shieldon Firewall on your Web application you must meet the basic server requirements below:

• PHP >= 7.1.0
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension (Required only if you would like to use MySQL, SQLite driver.)
• Redis PHP Extension (Required only if you would like to use Redis driver.)

Installation

Use PHP Composer:

composer require shieldon/shieldon

Or, download it and include the Shieldon autoloader.

require 'Shieldon/autoload.php';

Implementing

Popular Frameworks

Here are the guides of integrating with the popular PHP frameworks.

• Laravel
• Symfony
• CodeIgniter
• CakePHP
• Yii
• Zend
• Slim
• Fat-Free
• Fuel
• PHPixie

Other Frameworks

Implementing Shieldon on other framework is as easy as well.

// Notice that this directory must be writable.
$writable = __DIR__ . '/../shieldon';

// Initialize Fireall instane.
$firewall = new \Shieldon\Firewall($writable);
$firewall->run();

Place this code section in a beginning section of your project. The beginning section might be the index.php₍₁₎, Middleware or Parent Controller.

⁽¹⁾ index.php is the entry point for all requests entering your application in most frameworks such as Laravel, CodeIgniter, Slim, WordPress and more.

// Get Firewall instance from Shieldon Container.
$firewall = \Shieldon\Container::get('firewall');

// Get into the Firewall Panel.
$controlPanel = new \Shieldon\FirewallPanel($firewall);
$controlPanel->entry();

Put the code on the Controller and the URL that only you know. Although it has a basic login protection.