laravel difference between crypt::encrypt and crypt::encryptString

Question

I am still new on laravel, and just use laravel package name Crypt

but I found some that there are

Crypt::encrypt

and

Crypt::encryptString

what is the difference between them?

Answer 1

You can always refer to source code to know.

See Line 122 of Encrypter.php:

    return $this->encrypt($value, false);

Behind the scenes the encryptString calls the encrypt() method with false as second parameter, meaning that it won't serialize the value you give.

There's no difference in the behavior, but it will encrypt faster and the result will be slightly smaller because it won't contain string serialization.