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fixwa/tiny-uuid
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This library generates a short alphanumeric unique ID.

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Tiny UUID
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[](#tiny-uuid)

Generates a Random "Mixed Case" string of the specified length consisting only of numbers and letters, e.g: **crkeG**, **zL6VY**, etc.

This utility can be used to generate an alphanumeric ID for URLs when you don't want visitors to know the internals of your database (the ID of a record), and instead a random ID will be exposed.

For example:

Having this URL: we can change to:

Usage
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[](#usage)

Add the library as a dependency:

> $ composer require fixwa/tiny-uuid

Then in your code you would call it like the following:

```