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guidsen/fake-identifier
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A package to protect your ID with some hashing.

v1.0.1(11y ago)8152PHPPHP >=5.5.9

Since Jun 23Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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With this little package you are able to transform your internal id's to obfuscated integers easily in Laravel and Lumen 5.1. The package is made on top of [jenssegers/optimus](https://github.com/jenssegers/optimus) and is similar to Hashids.
If you use this library and use the traits that comes with it, you will be able to get a hashed identifier by using the `hashed_id` attribute. So `$model->hashed_id` will contain you hashed id.
If you want to change the attribute name, you can have a look at the [usage](#usage) section.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require guidsen/fake-identifier

```

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

The hashing algorithm depends on 3 integers.

- A large prime number lower than `2147483647`
- The inverse prime so that `(PRIME * INVERSE) & MAXID == 1`
- A large random integer lower than `2147483647`

You can calculate a prime number yourself, or pick one from this [list](http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/millions/).
Once you have selected a prime number, you can use the included console command to calculated the inverse prime that is used for the decoding process and generate a random integer:

```
> php vendor/bin/optimus spark YOUR_PRIME

Prime: 1580030173
Inverse: 59260789
Random: 1163945558

```

Because the helpers depend on the container binding you will have to bind the instance to the container with the `optimus` key. This will look like (fill in your the values you just generated):

```
$this->app->bind('optimus', function () {
    $optimus = new \Guidsen\FakeIdentifier\Optimus(15468539, 1296427827, 340274557);
    return $optimus;
});

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

The library comes with two helper traits.
**FakeIdentifier**: This trait should be used in your model. This will add a attribute containing the hashed id.
**FakeIdentifierHelper**: This trait should be used in your controllers or base controller. It will contain a `encode` and `decode` method which could be usefull.

The attribute which will contain the hashed id, default to `hashed_id`. You can change this to your own favorite id by using the `setAttributeName` method on the Optimus instance in the container binding.

```
$optimus = new \Guidsen\FakeIdentifier\Optimus(15468539, 1296427827, 340274557);
$optimus->setAttributeName('my_hashed_id');

```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 57% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~6 days

Total

2

Last Release

4022d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5262871?v=4)[Guido Schmitz](/maintainers/guidsen)[@guidsen](https://github.com/guidsen)

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