goatherd/goatherd-library-uuid

UUID generator for PHP 5.3 or newer

Pure PHP UUID generator

Dual-licensed under BSDL (2-clause) or Apache 2.0 license, _(*1)

Original author: Fredrik Lindberg, _(*2)

Adjustments

Optimised for use with PHP 5.3 or newer. Coding conventions now are closer to PEAR standards., _(*3)

The original single class was refactored as factory pattern., _(*4)

Composer support was added and registered with packagist. The component will be integrated with goatherd library., _(*5)

With beta and stable release some improvements and unit tests will be added., _(*6)

Please note that the interface is not yet final., _(*7)

Usage

use \Goatherd\Uuid\Factory;
use \Goatherd\Uuid\UuidInterface;

// default version 5 byte formated uuid
$uuid = Factory::generate();

// version 4 string formated uuid
$uuid = Factory::generate(Factory::UUID_RANDOM, UuidInterface::FMT_STRING);

// get version 4 uuid from generator instance
$uuidGenerator = new \Goatherd\Uuid\V4();
$uuid = $uuidGenerator(Uuid::FMT_STRING);

Supported formats are FMT_STRING, FMT_BYTE and FMT_BINARY. UUID version 1, 3, 4 and 5 are available., _(*8)