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# Introduction

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`league/oauth2-server` is a library that makes implementing a standards compliant OAuth 2.0 server trivial. Your users can authenticate and authorize application clients, and protect your APIs.

Out of the box it supports all of the grants defined in the [OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework RFC](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749):

* Authorization code grant
* Implicit grant
* Client credentials grant
* Resource owner password credentials grant
* Refresh grant

You can also easily make your own [custom grants]().

Both JWT bearer token and MAC token response types are supported too.

This library was created by Alex Bilbie. Find him on Twitter at [@alexbilbie](https://twitter.com/alexbilbie).

## Changelog

The full changelog can be viewed here - [https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-server/releases](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-server/releases).

The latest release is [![GitHub tag](https://img.shields.io/github/tag/thephpleague/oauth2-server.svg)](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-server/releases)

## Support

Please ask questions on the [Github issues page](https://github.com/thephpleague/oauth2-server/issues).

For commercial support and custom implementations please visit [Protobytes](https://protobytes.uk/oauth).