UUID component for CakePHP

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• rikman January 24, 2007 at 20:57

  Nice.

  Just yesterday I built my own Component for generating UUIDs … with the same code from PHP.net ;-)

• jgonzalez May 30, 2007 at 16:42

  could you provide an example of using the uuid component to auto generate the pk’s in a model object ?

  Thank you !

• cakebaker May 30, 2007 at 17:58

  @jgonzalez: Hm, the usual way to auto generate PKs is to use an auto-increment column in your table. I don’t know how you would use UUIDs as PKs as I always use the default way.

• PD July 20, 2007 at 02:28

  Thank you. This is great. Using it on a site.

• cakebaker July 21, 2007 at 10:27

  @PD: Cool to hear that :)

• cakebaker » Generating UUIDs with CakePHP August 20, 2007 at 09:04

  [...] months ago I presented in “UUID component for CakePHP” a simple component to generate UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers). With changeset 5552, this [...]

• Thomas Wright October 08, 2008 at 01:45

  You, my friend, are a lifesaver.
  Just what I wanted – actually for PKs like the chap above.
  To solve his problem I just whacked in the following line before the save call:
  $this->data['Record']['id'] = $this->Uuid->generate();
  And, for reference, UUIDs are useful as PKs when you’re sharding a database.
  Thanks again,
  Tom

• cakebaker October 09, 2008 at 19:31

  @Tom: You are welcome!

  If you defined your id field as CHAR(36), cake will automatically insert a UUID, so it is not really necessary to use this component for this purpose ;-)

• Thomas Wright October 09, 2008 at 20:29

  Yeah, I read that and got really excited about it.
  Unfortunately I couldn’t coax it into action and found it easier to implement your component.
  I guess my code would be neater if I could rely on the inbuilt UUIDing – any gotchas I should know about?

• cakebaker October 11, 2008 at 10:43

  @Tom: At least in theory it should work automagically, but there have been some issues with it in the past…

  Personally, I don’t have used such PKs yet, so I have no experience with them.

• HolisticNetworking March 11, 2009 at 16:50

  Oh, I’ll be paying attention to this site in the future. Yes, I will!

  Thanks for the awesome component. I’m a noob to the CakePHP world, but I’m digging it. The only problem: I need to create UUID’s for objects in my database because I’m sharing a foreign key among a couple different tables, yet the UUID thing that’s supposed to work automatically in Cake doesn’t seem to want to work for me.

• cakebaker March 11, 2009 at 18:03

  @HolisticNetworking: Thanks for your comment!

  Well, in the meantime this component is no longer necessary, you can simply use:
  String::uuid();

  So far I don’t have used the automagic UUID functionality, but maybe this section from the cookbook helps: http://book.cakephp.org/view/70/Using-UUIDs-as-Primary-Keys

• Eduardo August 08, 2011 at 06:59

  when using UUID’s as PKs in your table, is there a way to get the UUID of the last insert. What I’m actually getting is an auto_increment value eventhough the table does not have an auto_increment id as PK.

  See below…

  $return = $db->save($insert);
  			if($return){
  				$dataSource->commit($db);
  				return $db->id;
  			}

• cakebaker August 08, 2011 at 16:57

  @Eduardo: Hm, which CakePHP version do you use?

  I just created a table with UUIDs as PKs and it works as expected: after saving a record the id property of my model contains the UUID created by CakePHP (v1.3.11).

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