Laravel UUID generation

Question

I am trying to generate a UUID (not as primary key, just generate one) with the laravel-uuid package. The docs are pretty straightforward, so according to the readme file a UUID should be generated just by calling $uuid = Uuid::generate();, but it returns an empty object. (I also tried $uuid = Uuid::generate(1);)

I followed the installation instructions as provided there (nothing out of the ordinary), the app doesn't throw any errors, so I guess everything is right.

Alternative packages for this are also welcome.

Answer 1

After laravel 5.6 a new helper was added to generate Universal Unique Identifiers (UUID)

use Illuminate\Support\Str;  return (string) Str::uuid();  return (string) Str::orderedUuid(); 

The methods return a Ramsey\Uuid\Uuid object

The orderedUuid() method will generate a timestamp first UUID for easier and more efficient database indexing.