Creating friendly ID from integer values in symfony

19/02/2016 - PHP, SYMFONY

If you want to creating friendly ID from integer values in symfony the use example below. Example uses Hashids library.


Setup


Install "hashids/hashids": "^1.0" with composer.


Example


You should put variables in parameters.yml and create a util class as a service for this example. My example below is a shortcut and bad practise.


public function test($id)
{
    $salt = '35b9d8914020276ba992d112ee7c68022d49d85e';
    $minIdLength = 10;
    $alphabet = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';

    $hashids = new Hashids($salt, $minIdLength, $alphabet);

    $encodedId = $hashids->encode($id);
    $decodedId = $hashids->decode($encodedId);

    echo 'ENCODED:', $encodedId, ' - DECODED:', $decodedId[0];
}

Result


$this->test(1);

# Prints
ENCODED:KV8O4GBYPE - DECODED:1