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Sep 17, 2015
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Generate unique string as id for models automatically
Hello guys!
I'm not a fan of $table->increments so I use unique strings as id.
The problem is I'd have to make id fillable so I can assign the id when I create a database entry.
But I don't want that. Is there a way to automatically generate a id for a model before it gets inserted in the database? I think of something like a global hook or global event:
beforeModelInsertDb($model) {
$model->id = generateUniqueId();
}
where beforeModelInsertDb gets called by laravel automatically.
Is there any way to do this?
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Oh wow, I guess I'm blind, thanks!
Level 12
For one of my projects, I keep the increments there but use https://github.com/ivanakimov/hashids.php to generate a string for the id when needing to show it to the user in the url/do a lookup back to the record id.
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@michaelpittino try this it will work !
function getId() {
return yourModel::orderBy("id","DESC")->take(1)->first()->id + 1;
}
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Thanks for your answers, I solved it with the link which @Snapey provided me.
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