This package automatically generates public ID for your Eloquent models.

Most of your projects probably have the id auto-incremental field. There are many disadvantages of using that field to displaying resource (e.g. in routing: /posts/{id}). That's where public ID comes in place. Think of them like UUID but shorter and with no separator.

From the command line, run:

composer require crnkovic/public-id

This command will download and install the package into your vendor folder.

Open up config/app.php and add the following line within your providers array:

Crnkovic\PublicID\PublicIDServiceProvider::class

This step will plug the package into your Laravel application.

From the command line, run:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Crnkovic\PublicID\PublicIDServiceProvider"

Add the Crnkovic\PublicID\PublicID::column($table) line inside your Laravel migration. Example:

use Crnkovic\PublicID\PublicID;

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
    PublicID::column($table);
});

Just include the Crnkovic\PublicID\HasPublicID trait inside of your Eloquent model, and that's it. Now, on every model creation your public ID will be added and on every update, no public ID will be changed.

use Crnkovic\PublicID\HasPublicID;

class Post extends Model
{
    use HasPublicID;
}

You can configure the package to your own needs. The keys in the configuration file are as specified below.