Laravel Human Readable Keys

Have you ever wanted to generate Stripe-like IDs for your Eloquent models? This package does exactly that!

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require tailflow/laravel-human-readable-keys

Usage

1. Change type of the id (or whatever your primary key column is) to string in the migration

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('id');
    
    ...
});

2. Add HasHumanReadableKey trait to a model

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Tailflow\HumanReadableKeys\Concerns\HasHumanReadableKey;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasHumanReadableKey;

   ...
}

3. (Optional) Customize key prefix and length

By default, a singular form of the table name is used as prefix for generated keys. You can customize that by overriding the getKeyPrefix method on the model:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Tailflow\HumanReadableKeys\Concerns\HasHumanReadableKey;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasHumanReadableKey;

   ...
   
    public function getKeyPrefix(): string
    {
        return 'account';
    }
}

Generated keys contain a unique hash that is 24 characters in length. To customize hash length, override the getKeyLength method:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Tailflow\HumanReadableKeys\Concerns\HasHumanReadableKey;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasHumanReadableKey;

   ...
   
    public function getKeyLength(): string
    {
        return 16;
    }
}

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.