Laravel Public ID

A simple and automatic short ids (like youtube ids) generator for your laravel projects. Powered by Hashids project (and malahierba dev team)

Installation

Add in your composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "malahierba-lab/public-id": "1.*"
    }
}

Then you need run the composer update command.

Very Important: in composer.json use the "1.*" notation, not the ">1". If in future releases we change the conversion tool, you can loose your old public id values. For prevent this, always stay in the same mayor version.

Use

After Public ID installation, you must add the trait in any model which you want get public id functionality.

Example for Post Model:

<?php namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Malahierba\PublicId\PublicId;

class Post extends Model {
	use PublicId;
	
	//your code...

After that, you can setup the static variables to define the settings for the publicID: public_id_salt, public_id_min_length, public_id_alphabet, in previous example:

<?php namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Malahierba\PublicId\PublicId;

class Post extends Model {
	use PublicId;
	
	static protected $public_id_salt = 'some_string_for_salt_your_ids';

    static protected $public_id_min_length = 6; // min length for your generated short ids.
    
    static protected $public_id_alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLM'; // Only letters A-M
	
	//your code...

There are 4 predefined alphabets you can use. Setting the public_id_alphabet variable to upper_alphanumeric, upper_alpha, lower_alphanumeric, lower_alpha will use those predefined alphabets:

upper_alphanumeric => ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789
upper_alpha => ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
lower_alphanumeric => abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
lower_alpha => abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

That's all. Now you can use the Public ID functionality in your Post Model:

Get the Public ID (a.k.a. short id) for a model:

$short_id =  $post->public_id;

Get a model based on a public id string

$post = Post::findByPublicId($public_id);

Get the original ID with the public id string

$original_id = Post::publicIdDecode($public_id);

Big numbers

The max ID than can be managed by default is a billion (1.000.000.000). But, depending of your environment this number could be bigger. For test the max ID in your environment setup you can use the testPublicIdMaxInt function:

$max_id = Post::testPublicIdMaxInt();

Licence

This project has MIT licence. For more information please read LICENCE file.