Level 1
Take a look at this package: https://github.com/webpatser/laravel-uuid.
EDIT:
You can also use the base_convert functionality that PHP offers
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May 9, 2017
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Level 7
what is the best way to achieve unique urls for each item
I have a shopping website where each product within a shop has its own page. I don't want to have the url for each product as slug like "/p/the-best-laptop". I want to generate random value like the way Instagram or other sites are doing for example "/p/BT3VQ5yA0mx/". What is the right way to do it and be sure that each url will be unique.
Please advice
Level 50
Or maybe use something like hashids.
Level 7
I think the one fits my case is hashids which @ohffs suggested because I will not need to store anything? I mean can I just generate the links on the fly?
For example the id of 1 will be encoded to "ATX15" and then when I go to my route which will be "example.com/p/ATX15" I will decode that value in the controller to convert it to the right id. So no need to store the values? Is that correct?
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