alexchadwick/laravel-uuid

Laravel UUID generator, supports version 4 UUIDs

Laravel UUID

Laravel package to generate and validate (UUID)s according to RFC 4122 standard., _(*1)

Support for version 4 currently only.., _(*2)

Laravel 5.5 package auto discovery support., _(*3)

Installation

Install to your project using composer by running the following command:, _(*4)

composer require "alexchadwick/laravel-uuid

For Laravel 5.5, after installation you should see:, _(*5)

Discovered Package: alexchadwick/laravel-uuid

Usage

To generate UUID

$uuid = (string) Uuid::generate()

OR, _(*6)

$uuid = Uuid::generate()->string

To generate specific version of UUID

//generate UUIDv4
$uuid = (string) Uuid::generate(4)

OR, _(*7)

//generate UUIDv4
$uuid = Uuid::uuid4(4)

Eloquent model UUID

The built in Trait "HasUuidPrimaryKey", will automatically generate a UUIDv4 and set it on the model's primary key field when creating model., _(*8)

This will not affect model events since the Trait makes uses Laravel Model's bootTraits() function., _(*9)

Validation

Using the Laravel validator, you can now pass the rule name "uuid" to validate UUIDs., _(*10)

Laravel validator rule example, _(*11)

'YOUR-UUID-FIELD' => 'uuid'

Running tests

Tests are location in ./test, run phpunit to run built test., _(*12)