BigBlueButton API for PHP

The official BigBlueButton PHP API Client provides a developer-friendly wrapper to interact with the BigBlueButton API. Built for PHP 8.2+, this library simplifies integration and management of BigBlueButton servers in your PHP applications.

Installation and Usage

Install the library via Composer:

composer require bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-api-php

Usage instructions and the full API documentation live in the mdBook documentation (build it locally with mdbook build docs).

Bugs and feature requests are tracked on GitHub

Build the documentation

To build the documentation you need to install Rust and mdbook

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y
source "$HOME/.cargo/env"
cargo install mdbook

Contributing guidelines

See the contributing documentation for the full workflow.

🐞 Issues & Feature Requests

Please use the GitHub Issues tracker to report bugs or suggest new features.

🧪 Code Quality & Testing

This project follows strict code quality checks before allowing commits. Here's how to contribute effectively:

1. Coding Style

# Using Composer alias
composer code-fix

# Or directly
PHP_CS_FIXER_IGNORE_ENV=1 ./vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix --allow-risky yes

2. Static Analysis

composer code-check
# Or
./vendor/bin/phpstan analyse

3. Testing

# using an alias
composer code-test

# or the same w/o alias
./vendor/bin/phpunit

To run a specific test:

# using an alias
$ composer code-test -- --filter BigBlueButtonTest::testApiVersion

# or the same w/o alias
$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit --filter BigBlueButtonTest::testApiVersion

To generate a code coverage report (requires a coverage driver such as Xdebug or PCOV, stored in ./var/coverage/):

composer code-coverage

Regular test runs (composer code-test) do not collect coverage and therefore do not require a coverage driver.

4. Configuration

To connect tests to your own BigBlueButton server, copy .env to .env.local and configure:

BBB_SERVER_BASE_URL=https://your-bbb-server.example.com/bigbluebutton/
BBB_SECRET=your-secret

5. HTTP Client

The library uses curl by default and has no HTTP client dependency. Alternatively, inject any PSR-18 client with its PSR-17 factories:

use BigBlueButton\BigBlueButton;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\HttpFactory;

$factory = new HttpFactory();
$bbb = BigBlueButton::createWithHttpClient(
    new Client(['timeout' => 10]),
    $factory,
    $factory,
    'https://your-bbb-server.example.com/bigbluebutton/',
    'your-secret',
);

See the HTTP Client documentation for more examples (Guzzle, Symfony HttpClient, php-http) and behavioral notes.

✅ Pre-Commit Checks (CaptainHook)

We use CaptainHook to enforce code quality:

• ✔️ Commit message format (beams)
• ✔️ Code style (PHPCS-Fixer)
• ✔️ Static analysis (PHPStan)
• ✔️ PHPUnit tests

You can manually run all pre-commit checks to avoid errors:

composer code-fix
composer code-check
composer code-test

Do not skip checks using --no-verify unless absolutely necessary.

CaptainHook should be installed automatically after the first composer install. If not:

vendor/bin/captainhook install

🏷️ Versioning and Releases

This project follows Semantic Versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH):

• MAJOR for incompatible API changes
• MINOR for backwards-compatible functionality additions
• PATCH for backwards-compatible bug fixes

Releases are published as git tags in the x.x.x format without a v prefix (like the existing 2.3.1) and are summarized in CHANGELOG.md. When preparing a release, move the changelog's [Unreleased] section to the new version and tag the release commit.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the terms of the LGPL-3.0.