Laravel HashId

Automatic HashId generator for your Laravel Eloquent models.

About

Laravel HashId provides an elegant way to add hashed IDs to your Eloquent models. It generates unique, non-sequential hashes for your model IDs and provides convenient methods to work with them.

✨ Latest Features

Version 3.2.0 introduces powerful column selection capabilities along with full Laravel 11/12 and PHP 8.4 compatibility.

🔥 Column Selection API (New in v3.2.0)

// Get user by hash with specific columns (better performance!)
$user = User::byHash($hash, ['name', 'email']);

// Get user by hash with single column
$user = User::byHash($hash, ['name']);

// Column selection with exception handling
$user = User::byHashOrFail($hash, ['name', 'email']);

Benefits:

• 🚀 Better Performance - Load only the columns you need
• 🔒 Type Safety - Automatic primary key inclusion when required
• 🔄 Backward Compatible - All existing code works unchanged
• 🎯 Smart Defaults - ['*'] loads all columns, just like before

Compatibility

Modern Laravel Support (Recommended)

Laravel HashId	PHP Version	Laravel 10	Laravel 11	Laravel 12
3.2 🌟	≥ 8.1	✅	✅	✅
4.x 🚀	≥ 8.1	✅	✅	✅

• 🌟 Stable Release (3.2) - Recommended for production
• 🚀 Development Branch (4.x) - Latest improvements

Full Version Matrix

Laravel HashId	PHP Version	Laravel 6	Laravel 7	Laravel 8	Laravel 9	Laravel 10	Laravel 11	Laravel 12
1.x	≥ 7.0	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
2.x	≥ 7.2	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
3.0	≥ 7.4	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
3.1	≥ 8.0	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
3.2 🌟	≥ 8.1	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
4.x 🚀	≥ 8.1	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅

📊 Version Recommendations:

• Laravel 6-9 → Use 3.0 or 3.1
• Laravel 10+ → Use 3.2 (stable) or 4.x (development)
• Latest features → Use 3.2+ with column selection support

Installation

composer require veelasky/laravel-hashid

With Laravel's package auto-discovery, the package will be automatically registered.

Quick Start

Simply add the HashableId trait to any Eloquent model you want to use with HashId:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Veelasky\LaravelHashId\Eloquent\HashableId;

class User extends Model
{
    use HashableId;
}

Usage Examples

Basic Usage

$user = User::find(1);           // Find user by ID
$user->hash;                     // Get HashId automatically

// Find by HashId
$user = User::byHash($hash);
$user = User::byHashOrFail($hash); // Throws exception if not found

// Convert between ID and HashId
$hashedId = User::idToHash($id);
$originalId = User::hashToId($hash);

// Query scope
User::query()->byHash($hash)->get();

Column Selection (New in v3.2)

// Load only specific columns for better performance
$user = User::byHash($hash, ['name', 'email']);

// Single column selection
$user = User::byHash($hash, ['name']);

// Column selection with exception handling
$user = User::byHashOrFail($hash, ['name', 'email']);

Persisting HashId to Database

class User extends Model
{
    use HashableId;

    protected $shouldHashPersist = true;  // Persist hash to database
    protected $hashColumnName = 'hashid';  // Custom column name (optional)
}

Route Model Binding

The trait automatically overwrites route methods to use HashId:

Route::get('/users/{user}', [UserController::class, 'show']);

class UserController
{
    public function show(User $user)
    {
        // $user resolves automatically by HashId
        // Example URL: /users/k1jTdv6l
    }
}

Validation Rules

use App\Models\User;
use Veelasky\LaravelHashId\Rules\ExistsByHash;

$request->validate([
    'user_id' => ['required', new ExistsByHash(User::class)],
]);

Advanced Usage

Repository Pattern Access

// Using the HashId facade
$hashedId = HashId::idToHash($id, User::class);
$originalId = HashId::hashToId($hash, User::class);

// Manual hash ID creation
$hashId = HashId::make('custom-key', 'custom-salt');

Shared Hash Across Models

class User extends Model
{
    protected $hashKey = 'shared-hash-key';
}

class Customer extends User { }

$customer = Customer::find(1);
$user = User::find(1);

// Both will have the same hash
echo $customer->hash === $user->hash; // true

Configuration

You can configure HashId behavior using environment variables:

HASHID_SALT=your-custom-salt
HASHID_LENGTH=10
HASHID_ALPHABET=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890

Or publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-hashid-config

License

MIT License. Feel free to use this package in your projects!