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A simple package for using UUID's with Laravel's Eloquent models. By including the trait on your models, they will automatically get given a time ordered UUIDv4 for their key (ID) when being persisted to the database.

The current version requires Laravel 5.6 (PHP 7.1) or greater. If you're using an older version of Laravel, please see v1 of this package.

Installation

composer require gbuckingham89/eloquent-uuid

Use

Make sure your database table(s) are setup to handle UUID's. Laravel has a method called uuid() which you can use in your migrations. You will probably want the field to be unique too.

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->uuid('id')->unique();
    // Other fields here...
});

At the top of your model(s) you simply need to include a trait:

<?php

namespace App;
use Gbuckingham89\EloquentUuid\Traits\UuidForKey;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Eloquent
{
    use UuidForKey;
}

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright George Buckingham.

Code released under the MIT License.