This package was created with purpose of creating a BCrypt hasher that could be used in both Laravel and non-Laravel projects. This package is useful in the following cases:

1. A part of your code uses Laravel, and the other part does not, but you need a common hasher,
2. You are using Laravel but intend to switch to another framework and want to make the transition painless.

The VKR\SymfonyLaravelBCryptBridge\BcryptHasher class intends to reproduce functionality of Illuminate\Hashing\BcryptHasher without being dependent on Laravel. It was tested with Laravel versions 5.5 and newer.

The original Laravel class implements an interface named Illuminate\Contracts\Hashing\Hasher. This means that VKR\SymfonyLaravelBCryptBridge\BcryptHasher will not work in a Laravel project out of the box, and a decorator implementing the same interface is needed. You can copy-paste /examples/LaravelWrapper.php into your project, just add the relevant namespace. When using this package with other frameworks, you can create other decorators that would implement an interface defined in your framework.

This package depends on symfony/security 4.x, so it will not work with any framework that insists on using a different version of symfony/security.