Use UUID as primary key of Laravel Eloquent ORM.

Laravel x Eloquent ORM

Introduction

Traditionally we use an integer value as id of model, but nowadays we use a string value as id of model called UUID(Universally Unique ID).

Eloquent ORM also has support using UUID as identifier.

In this post, I’ll teach you how to use UUID as identifier into Eloquent ORM.

Install Laravel Eloquent UUID Package

goldspecdigital/laravel-eloquent-uuid

I’m using Laravel 7.x, so I entered command as shown below.

$ composer require goldspecdigital/laravel-eloquent-uuid:^7.0

Modify Migration File

Usually we use $table->id(); statement to create id column, but to use UUID, we use $table->uuid('id')->primary(); statement.

Schema::create('people', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->uuid('id')->primary();
    $table->string('name');
    $table->integer('age');
    $table->timestamps();
});

Extends Model Class