The Symfony Polyfill / UUID Component
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This component provides
uuid_*functions to users who run PHP versions without the UUID extension.
Installation
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$ composer require symfony/polyfill-uuidNote
If you install this component outside of a Symfony application, you must
require the vendor/autoload.php file in your code to enable the class
autoloading mechanism provided by Composer. Read
this article for more details.
Usage
Once this component is installed in your application, you can use the following functions, no matter if the PHP UUID extension is installed or not in your server.
Provided Constants
UUID_VARIANT_NCS(value = 0)UUID_VARIANT_DCE(value = 1)UUID_VARIANT_MICROSOFT(value = 2)UUID_VARIANT_OTHER(value = 3)UUID_TYPE_DEFAULT(value = 0)UUID_TYPE_TIME(value = 1)UUID_TYPE_DCE(value = 4)UUID_TYPE_NAME(value = 1)UUID_TYPE_RANDOM(value = 4)UUID_TYPE_NULL(value = -1)UUID_TYPE_INVALID(value = -42)