How to validate a certificate in php through openssl

[saadi06]

Hi,
Can anyone tell me that how can I check through openssl that the given certificate has a valid trust anchor or not.
Thanks in advance.

[authcate]

Check the discussion here:
verify SMTP certificate in PHP
I hope this is what you are looking for.

<?php
    $server   = "smtp.gmail.com";        // Who I connect to
    $myself   = "my_server.example.com"; // Who I am
    $cabundle = '/etc/ssl/cacert.pem';   // Where my root certificates are

    // Verify server. There's not much we can do, if we suppose that an attacker
    // has taken control of the DNS. The most we can hope for is that there will
    // be discrepancies between the expected responses to the following code and
    // the answers from the subverted DNS server.

    // To detect these discrepancies though, implies we knew the proper response
    // and saved it in the code. At that point we might as well save the IP, and
    // decouple from the DNS altogether.

    $match1   = false;
    $addrs    = gethostbynamel($server);
    foreach($addrs as $addr)
    {
        $name = gethostbyaddr($addr);
        if ($name == $server)
        {
            $match1 = true;
            break;
        }
    }
    // Here we must decide what to do if $match1 is false.
    // Which may happen often and for legitimate reasons.
    print "Test 1: " . ($match1 ? "PASSED" : "FAILED") . "\n";

    $match2   = false;
    $domain   = explode('.', $server);
    array_shift($domain);
    $domain = implode('.', $domain);
    getmxrr($domain, $mxhosts);
    foreach($mxhosts as $mxhost)
    {
        $tests = gethostbynamel($mxhost);
        if (0 != count(array_intersect($addrs, $tests)))
        {
            // One of the instances of $server is a MX for its domain
            $match2 = true;
            break;
        }
    }
    // Again here we must decide what to do if $match2 is false.
    // Most small ISP pass test 2; very large ISPs and Google fail.
    print "Test 2: " . ($match2 ? "PASSED" : "FAILED") . "\n";
    // On the other hand, if you have a PASS on a server you use,
    // it's unlikely to become a FAIL anytime soon.

    // End of maybe-they-help-maybe-they-don't checks.

    // Establish the connection
    $smtp = fsockopen( "tcp://$server", 25, $errno, $errstr );
    fread( $smtp, 512 );

    // Here you can check the usual banner from $server (or in general,
    // check whether it contains $server's domain name, or whether the
    // domain it advertises has $server among its MX's.
    // But yet again, Google fails both these tests.

    fwrite($smtp,"HELO $myself\r\n");
    fread($smtp, 512);

    // Switch to TLS
    fwrite($smtp,"STARTTLS\r\n");
    fread($smtp, 512);
    stream_set_blocking($smtp, true);
    stream_context_set_option($smtp, 'ssl', 'verify_peer', true);
    stream_context_set_option($smtp, 'ssl', 'allow_self_signed', false);
    stream_context_set_option($smtp, 'ssl', 'capture_peer_cert', true);
    stream_context_set_option($smtp, 'ssl', 'cafile', $cabundle);
    $secure = stream_socket_enable_crypto($smtp, true, STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLS_CLIENT);
    stream_set_blocking($smtp, false);
    $opts = stream_context_get_options($smtp);
    if (!isset($opts["ssl"]["peer_certificate"]))
        $secure = false;
    else
    {
        $cert = openssl_x509_parse($opts["ssl"]["peer_certificate"]);
        $names = '';
        if ('' != $cert)
        {
            if (isset($cert['extensions']))
                $names = $cert['extensions']['subjectAltName'];
            elseif (isset($cert['subject']))
            {
                if (isset($cert['subject']['CN']))
                    $names = 'DNS:' . $cert['subject']['CN'];
                else
                    $secure = false; // No exts, subject without CN
            }
            else
                $secure = false; // No exts, no subject
        }
        $checks = explode(',', $names);

        // At least one $check must match $server
        $tmp    = explode('.', $server);
        $fles   = array_reverse($tmp);
        $okay   = false;
        foreach($checks as $check)
        {
            $tmp = explode(':', $check);
            if ('DNS' != $tmp[0])    continue;  // candidates must start with DNS:
            if (!isset($tmp[1]))     continue;  // and have something afterwards
            $tmp  = explode('.', $tmp[1]);
            if (count($tmp) < 3)     continue;  // "*.com" is not a valid match
            $cand = array_reverse($tmp);
            $okay = true;
            foreach($cand as $i => $item)
            {
                if (!isset($fles[$i]))
                {
                    // We connected to www.example.com and certificate is for *.www.example.com -- bad.
                    $okay = false;
                    break;
                }
                if ($fles[$i] == $item)
                    continue;
                if ($item == '*')
                    break;
            }
            if ($okay)
                break;
        }
        if (!$okay)
            $secure = false; // No hosts matched our server.
    }

    if (!$secure)
            die("failed to connect securely\n");
    print "Success!\n";
    // Continue with connection...
?>