Authenticate a PHP application using Azure Active Directory connection

Question

I work as an intern in my college and we want to build an app. Of course, our university has an active directory and we use Azure and Azure also has our AD. I am building the front-end and need to implement login using Azure AD SSO. How could I do that? Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

• You can refer the below code to add the identity provider's authentication connection settings in the php application configuration files. The following code will help you to add a section to your existing php web app code in authentication sources file to configure and provision SSO through azure AD.

• Once the above code has been placed and configured in the PHP application, now add the PHP application in app registrations in Azure AD and provide the web redirect URI for your PHP application and provide the SSO configuration details in the SSO pane like federation metadata URL, SAML or WS-Fed Sign in or sign out URLs. Once done, check the below code for confirmation of SAML endpoint URL for the Azure AD configured in the PHP authentication config file.

• The below snapshot shows the how the SAML token authentication is redirected to Azure AD and its configuration in PHP app. Also, how its attributes and claims are passed from the Azure AD to the PHP app for service granting and authentication purposes.

Thus, in this way, you can configure a PHP application to authenticate with Azure AD through SSO. Please find the below links for more information: -

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Open/Using-SimpleSAML-to-authenticate-PHP-applications-with-Azure-AD

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-vs-authorization#web-application-to-web-api