L5-eloquent-guidable

Eases using and generating guid's in Laravel Eloquent models.

Setup

Add the package to the require section of your composer.json and run composer update

"kduma/eloquent-guidable": "^1.1"

Prepare models

Inside your model (not on top of file) add following lines:

use \KDuma\Eloquent\Guidable;

In database create guid string field. If you use migrations, you can use following snippet:

$table->string('guid')->unique();

Usage

By default it generates slug on first save.

• $model->newGuid() - Generate new guid. (Remember to save it by yourself)
• Model::whereGuid($slug)->first() - Find by guid. (whereGuid is query scope)