How to Generate UUID in Laravel Application?

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I am trying to generate a UUID laravel-uuid package. In this post we will use webpatser/laravel-uuid composer package for generate uuid in laravel. UUID stand for universally unique identifier and is a 128-bit number used to identify information in computer. I will use composer package for generate unique uuid.

You can use this example with laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8 and laravel 9 version.

Download Laravel

Let us begin the tutorial by installing a new laravel application. if you have already created the project, then skip following step.

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Generate Uuid in Controller File:

Example 1 :

<?php

 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

 
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

 
class StrController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $uuid = Str::uuid();
        dd($uuid);
    }
}

Example 2 : in this step we genarate uuid using toString() function

<?php

 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

 
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

 
class StrController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $uuid = Str::uuid()->toString();
        dd($uuid);
    }
}

Example 3 :

<?php

 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

 
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

 
class StrController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $uuid = (string) Str::uuid();
        dd($uuid);
    }
}

Example 4 :

In this Step, We Will see how to check UUID

<?php

 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

 
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

 
class StrController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Write code on Method
     *
     * @return response()
     */
    public function index()
    {
        $isUuid = Str::isUuid('a0a2a2d2-0b87-4a18-83f2-2529882be2de');
        dd($uuid);
    }
}

Output :

true

Example 5 :

In this step we will see how to generate UUID in route File

Install webpatser/laravel-uuid Package:

composer require webpatser/laravel-uuid

web.php

<?php
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('uuid-gen', function () {
    dd(Uuid::generate()->string);
});

now it works...