README

Laravel package to generate and validate (UUID)s according to RFC 4122 standard.

Support for version 4 currently only..

Laravel 5.5 package auto discovery support.

Installation

Install to your project using composer by running the following command:

composer require "alexchadwick/laravel-uuid

For Laravel 5.5, after installation you should see:

Discovered Package: alexchadwick/laravel-uuid

Usage

To generate UUID

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

OR

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

To generate specific version of UUID

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

OR

//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.

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

Validation

Using the Laravel validator, you can now pass the rule name "uuid" to validate UUIDs.

Laravel validator rule example

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

Running tests

Tests are location in ./test, run phpunit to run built test.