ClamAV Validator For Laravel 5

Custom Laravel 5 anti-virus validator for file uploads.

• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Author

Requirements

You must have ClamAV anti-virus scanner running on the server to make this package work.

You can see the ClamAV installation instructions on the official ClamAV documentation.

For example on an Ubuntu machine, you can do:

# Install clamav virus scanner
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon

# Update virus definitions
sudo freshclam

# Start the scanner service
sudo service clamav-daemon start

This package is not tested on windows, but if you have ClamAV running (usually on port 3310) it should work.

Installation

1. Install the package through Composer.

$ composer require sunspikes/clamav-validator

2. Add the service provider (for Laravel 5.4 or below)

This package supports Laravel new Package Discovery.

If you are using Laravel < 5.5, you need to add Sunspikes\ClamavValidator\ClamavValidatorServiceProvider::class to your providers array in config/app.php:

'providers' => array(
	// ...

	Sunspikes\ClamavValidator\ClamavValidatorServiceProvider::class,
),

Usage

Use it like any Validator rule:

$rules = array(
	'my_file_field' => 'clamav',
);

Configuration

By default the package will try to connect the clamav daemon via the default socket file (/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl) and if it fails it will try the tcp port (127.0.0.1:3310)

But you can set the CLAMAV_UNIX_SOCKET (socket file path) or CLAMAV_LOCAL_TCP_SOCKET (host:port) environment variables to override this.

Author

Krishnaprasad MG [@sunspikes]

Contact me at [sunspikes at gmail dot com]