Install SDK and Virgil Crypto Library

With Virgil SDK you can easily communicate with Virgil Services and manage a user's Public Keys.

In order to perform cryptographic operations, SDK uses a Virgil Crypto library.

The Virgil SDK is provided as a package named virgil/sdk. The package is distributed via composer package management system.

You need to install php virgil crypto extension ext-virgil_crypto_php as one of dependency otherwise you will get the requested PHP extension virgil_crypto_php is missing from your system error during composer install.

In general to install virgil crypto extension follow next steps:

Download proper extension package for your platform from cdn like virgil-crypto-2.0.4-php-5.6-linux-x86_64.tgz.

Type following command to unpack extension in terminal:

$ tar -xvzf virgil-crypto-2.0.4-php-5.6-linux-x86_64.tgz

Place unpacked virgil_crypto_php.so under php extension path.

Add virgil extension to your php.ini configuration file like extension = virgil_crypto_php.so.

$ echo "extension=virgil_crypto_php.so" >> \
`php --ini | grep "Loaded Configuration" | sed -e "s|.*:\s*||"`

All necessary information about where php.ini or extension_dir are you can get from php_info() in case run php on server or call php -i | grep php.ini or php -i | grep extension_dir from CLI.

Prerequisites:

PHP 5.6.*
Composer
virgil_crypto_php.so

Installing the package:

$ composer require virgil/sdk