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mawuekom/laravel-model-uuid
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Easily work with UUIDs in your Laravel models

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Laravel Model UUIDs
===================

[](#laravel-model-uuids)

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A simple solution to easily work with UUIDs in your Laravel models.

This package provides a way to generate and work with [RFC 4122](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122) version 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 universally unique identifiers (UUID). It also supports optional and non-standard features, such as \[version 6 UUIDs\], GUIDs, and other approaches for encoding/decoding UUIDs.

It based on [ramsey/uuid](https://uuid.ramsey.dev/en/latest/index.html) package.
Take a look on this for more details.

What Is a UUID?
---------------

[](#what-is-a-uuid)

A universally unique identifier, or UUID, is a 128-bit unsigned integer, usually represented as a hexadecimal string split into five groups with dashes. The most widely-known and used types of UUIDs are defined by [RFC 4122](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122).

A UUID, when encoded in hexadecimal string format, looks like:

```
ebb5c735-0308-4edc-9aea-8a270aebfe15

```

The probability of duplicating a UUID is close to zero, so they are a great choice for generating unique identifiers in distributed systems.

UUIDs can also be stored in binary format, as a string of 16 bytes.

It is suggested to use UUIDs in your responses instead of IDs, which are generally enumerable.

This will help mitigate some forms of enumeration attacks.

**Note**: This package explicitly does not disable auto-incrementing on your Eloquent models. In terms of database indexing, it is generally more efficient to use auto-incrementing integers for your internal querying. Indexing your uuid column will make lookups against that column fast, without impacting queries between related models.

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

[](#installation)

You can install the package via composer:

```
composer require mawuekom/laravel-model-uuid
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To use this package, you simply need to import and use the trait within your Eloquent models.

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