ThunderTUS PHP

Resumable file upload in PHP using tus resumable upload protocol v1.0.0.

tus is a HTTP based protocol for resumable file uploads. Resumable means you can carry on where you left off without re-uploading whole data again in case of any interruptions. An interruption may happen willingly if the user wants to pause, or by accident in case of a network issue or server outage.

thunder tus is the most reliable implementation of the tus protocol for PHP yet. Designed for high concurrency (real world scenarios) and integration simplicity it's free of external dependencies (complex caching engines etc.). It is also PSR-7 compliant in order to bring the tus protocol to modern PHP frameworks such as Slim 3.

extensions: building on the extensibility capabilities of the tus protocol, thunder tus also includes two new extensions:

• CrossCheck: final checksum of the uploaded files to ensure maximum reliability;
• Express: tus uploads with a single HTTP call - making tus better suited for mobile contexts and other environments where performance is a priority.

Installation

Pull the package via composer.

$ composer require TCB13/thunder-tus-php

Basic Usage

Use composer to install tcb13/thunder-tus-php and some other packages used in the following examples:

$ composer require tcb13/thunder-tus-php psr/http-message zendframework/zend-diactoros zendframework/zend-httphandlerrunner

Create your tus-server.php file:

<?php
include "vendor/autoload.php";

$request = Zend\Diactoros\ServerRequestFactory::fromGlobals();
$response = new Zend\Diactoros\Response();

$backend = new FileSystem(__DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "uploads");
$server = new ThunderTUS\Server($request, $response);
$server->setStorageBackend($backend);
$server->setApiPath("/");
$server->handle();
$response = $server->getResponse();

$emitter = new Zend\HttpHandlerRunner\Emitter\SapiEmitter();
$emitter->emit($response);

Create the following .htaccess (or equivalent) at your virtual host:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ tus-server.php [L,QSA]

Now you can go ahead and upload a file using the TUS client included at examples/client-express.php. After the upload is finished you may retrieve the file in another script by calling:

$finalStorageDirectory = "/var/www/html/uploads";
$server = new ThunderTUS\Server();
$status = $server->completeAndFetch($filename, $finalStorageDirectory);
if (!$status) {
      throw new \Exception("Could not fetch ({$filename}) from storage backend: not found.");
}

The file will be moved from the temporary storage backend to the $finalStorageDirectory directory.

You may also retrieve the final file as a stream with ThunderTUS\Server::completeAndStream() or keep on the same place as the temporary parts with ThunderTUS\Server::complete()

Storage Backends

In order to use ThunderTUS you must pick a storage backend. Those are used to temporally store the uploaded parts until the upload is completed. Storage backends come in a variety of flavours from the local filesystem to MongoBD's GridFS:

• FileSystem: a quick to use and understand backend for simple projects that will append uploaded parts into a file stored at the path provided on it's constructor;
• Amazon S3: useful in distributed scenarios (eg. your backend serves requests from multiple machines behind a load balancer), an implementation of Amazon's S3 protocol. Tested compatibility with DigitalOcean's Spaces;
• Redis: also for distributed scenarios, stores uploaded parts into a Redis database;
• MongoDB: also for distributed scenarios, will store uploaded parts inside a MongoDB GridFS bucket.

You may also implement your own storage backend by extending the StorageBackend class and/or implementing the StorageInterface interface.

S3 Storage Backend

$server  = new \ThunderTUS\Server($request, $response);

$client = new S3Client([
    "version"     => "latest",
    "region"      => "...",
    "endpoint"    => "...",
    "credentials" => [
        "key"    => "--key--",
        "secret" => "--secret---",
    ],
]);
$backend  = new S3($client, "your-bucket", "optional-path-prefix");
$server->setStorageBackend($backend);

$server->setUploadMaxFileSize(50000);
$server->setApiPath("/tus");
$server->handle();

You may later retrieve the finished upload as described above at the basic usage section.

MongoDB Storage Backend

// Connect to your MongDB
$con = new \MongoDB\Client($configs->uri, $configs->options]);
$mongodb= $con->selectDatabase($configs->db]);

// Start ThunderTUS
$server  = new \ThunderTUS\Server($request, $response);

// Load the MongoDB backend
$mongoBackend = new MongoDB($mongodb);
$server->setStorageBackend($mongoBackend );

// Set other settings and process requests
$server->setUploadMaxFileSize(50000);
$server->setApiPath("/tus");
$server->handle();

// Send the response back to the client
$response = $server->getResponse();

You may later retrieve the finished upload as described above at the basic usage section.

Redis Storage Backend

$server  = new \ThunderTUS\Server($request, $response);

$redisBackend = new Redis($redisClient);
$server->setStorageBackend($redisBackend);

$server->setUploadMaxFileSize(50000);
$server->setApiPath("/tus");
$server->handle();

You may later retrieve the finished upload as described above at the basic usage section.

ThunderTUS & Dependency Injection

ThunderTUS was designed to be integrated into dependency injection systems / containers. In simple scenarios you should pass an implementation of a PSR HTTP request and response to ThunderTUS's constructor, however this is optional. Sometimes it might be desirable to be able to instantiate the Server in a Service Provider and provide the PSR HTTP implementations later in a controller.

Example of a ThunderTUS service provider:

public static function register()
{
    $settings = $this->container->get("settings.tusProtocol");

    // Create the server
    $server = new Server(); // No request or response implementations passed here

    // Load the filesystem Backend
    $backend = new FileSystem($settings->path]);
    $server->setStorageBackend($backend);

    // Set TUS upload parameters
    $server->setUploadMaxFileSize((int)$settings->maxSize);
    $server->setApiPath($settings->endpoint);
    
    return $server;
}

Now the controller that handles uploads:

public function upload()
{
    // Resolve TUS using the container
    /** @var \ThunderTUS\Server $server */
    $server = $this->container->get(\ThunderTUS\Server::class);

    // Load the request or response implementations here!
    $server->loadHTTPInterfaces($this->request, $this->response); 

    // Handle the upload request
    $server->handle();

    // Send the response back to the client
    return $server->getResponse();
}

We've only provided the PSR HTTP request and response implementations on the controller by calling $server->loadHTTPInterfaces(..).

Client Implementations

• PHP Client: At the examples directory you may find a simple client and tus-crosscheck / tus-express examples as well;
• JavaScript / ES6: https://github.com/stenas/thunder-tus-js-client - a very well designed and implemented tus-crosscheck / tus-express capable client with minimal footprint.