Laravel Uuid (Universally unique identifier)

Laravel package to generate a UUID according to the RFC 4122 standard. UUID Versions 1, 3, 4 and 5 are supported. With MIT license.

• About
• Requirements
• Installation
  • Laravel 5.5 and above
  • Laravel 5.4 and below
• Basic Usage
• Advanced Usage
  • UUID creation
    • UUID V1
    • UUID V3
    • UUID V4
    • UUID V5
• Additional Features
  • Import UUID
  • Extract time
  • Extract Version
• Changelog
  • 2.*
• License
• Credits

About

Since Laravel 4.* and 5.* both rely on either OpenSSL or Mcrypt, the pseudo random byte generator now tries to use one of them. If both cannot be used (not a Laravel project?), the 'less random' mt_rand() function is used.

Requirements

• Laravel 5.3, 5.4 or 5.5+

Installation

Laravel 5.5 and above

1. From your projects root folder in terminal run:

    composer require jeremykenedy/uuid

• Uses package auto discovery feature, no need to edit the config/app.php file.

Laravel 5.4 and below

1. From your projects root folder in terminal run:

    composer require jeremykenedy/uuid:2.1.2

2. Register the package with laravel in config/app.php under aliases with the following:

    'aliases' => [
        'Uuid' => jeremykenedy\Uuid\Uuid::class,
    ];

Basic Usage

To quickly generate a UUID just do

    Uuid::generate()

• This will generate a version 1 with a random ganerated MAC address.

Advanced Usage

UUID creation

UUID V1

Generate a version 1, time-based, UUID. You can set the optional node to the MAC address. If not supplied it will generate a random MAC address.

Uuid::generate(1,'00:11:22:33:44:55');

UUID V3

Generate a version 3, name-based using MD5 hashing, UUID

Uuid::generate(3,'test', Uuid::NS_DNS);

UUID V4

Generate a version 4, truly random, UUID

Uuid::generate(4);

UUID V5

Generate a version 5, name-based using SHA-1 hashing, UUID

Uuid::generate(5,'test', Uuid::NS_DNS);

Additional Features

Import UUID

• To import a UUID

$uuid = Uuid::import('d3d29d70-1d25-11e3-8591-034165a3a613');

Extract Time

• Extract the time for a time-based UUID (version 1)

$uuid = Uuid::generate(1);
dd($uuid->time);

Extract Version

• Extract the version of an UUID

$uuid = Uuid::generate(4);
dd($uuid->version);

Changelog

2.*

• Laravel Uuid is now fully PSR-2, just like Laravel 5.1.
• Not that much has changed except for UPPERCASING the constants used in Laravel Uuid.
• Meaning Uuid::nsDNS is now Uuid::NS_DNS etc. Should be an easy fix.

Credits

• Full development credit must go to webpatser. This package was forked and modified to be compliant with MIT licensing standards for production use.

License

Laravel UUID is licensed under the MIT license for both personal and commercial products. Enjoy!