why do you want to generate an id? if it's to mask id's in an url you can use something like http://www.hashids.org/php/

it's better to use basic numeric id when using Laravel if you don't want to change a lot. (Relationships for example)

if you still need to generate your own id I suggest you use uuid v4, the collision (change that it generates the same id twice) is very low

example https://gist.github.com/dahnielson/508447

zenry said:

why do you want to generate an id? if it's to mask id's in an url you can use something like http://www.hashids.org/php/

it's better to use basic numeric id when using Laravel if you don't want to change a lot. (Relationships for example)

if you still need to generate your own id I suggest you use uuid v4, the collision (change that it generates the same id twice) is very low

example https://gist.github.com/dahnielson/508447

Thanks for comment, but UUID is too long for my system