THIS VERSION IS DEPRECATED! PLEASE USE sven/unique-hashids INSTEAD.

This is a simple trait for Laravel models to generate unique ids for them. It uses vinkla's wonderful Hashids package and is configurable within the model itself.

You may install this package via composer:

$ composer require juggl/unique-hashids

This will install both this package and Hashids. Please see the documentation over there to install & configure the hashids. This package will use the default Hashids driver.

To start generating unique ids for your models, all you need to do is use a trait, like so:

namespace App;

use Juggl\UniqueHashids\GeneratesUnique;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class YourModel extends Model
{
    use GeneratesUnique;

    // The rest of your model
}

By default, this package assumes you have a unique_id column on you database to store the unique id in. Optionally, you may override this by setting a static property $uniqueColumn on your model:

namespace App;

use Juggl\UniqueHashids\GeneratesUnique;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class YourModel extends Model
{
    use GeneratesUnique;

    public static $uniqueColumn = 'my_column'; // this will assume 'unique_id' by default.

    // The rest of your model
}

This package depends on vinkla's excellent Hashids package, found here.

juggl\unique-hashids is licenced under the MIT License (MIT). Please see the license file for more information.