README

This repository contains a binding of the libuuid library with PHP thanks to PHP/FFI. So this requires PHP 7.4 to run.

For now this is mostly a proof of concept to demonstrate the power of the FFI extension. In future, if and when the performance of FFI improves, it could be a good alternative to the PECL UUID package.

Further details can be found in the following blog post PHP 7.4 FFI: What you need to know .

Installation

composer require jolicode/ffi-uuid

Usage

use JoliCode\Uuid\UuidGenerator;

$generator = new UuidGenerator();

echo $generator->v1();
echo $generator->v3('something');
echo $generator->v4();
echo $generator->v5('something');

Resources

• Uuid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
• libuuid: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/lib/uuid
• Inspiration: https://github.com/paxal/php-dbus