Hashids
A small PHP library to generate YouTube-like IDs from numbers
Hashids is a small open-source library that generates short, unique, non-sequential ids from numbers. It converts numbers like 347 into strings like “yr8”, or array of numbers like [27, 986] into “3kTMd”. You can also decode those ids back. This is useful in bundling several parameters into one or simply using them as short UIDs. Hashids works similarly to the way integers are converted to hex, but with a few exceptions. The alphabet is not base16, but base base62 by default. The alphabet...