Top 6 PHP Encoding Projects

hashids

6 5,183 5.3 PHP

A small PHP library to generate YouTube-like ids from numbers. Use it when you don't want to expose your database ids to the user.

Project mention: Show HN: Sqids (formely Hashids) – Generate short unique IDs from numbers | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-07

More than 10 years ago, I released the first version of Hashids in PHP, an encoding library to generate unique IDs from numbers [0]. Over the years, many developers have converted the library to plenty of other programming languages. It was nice to see it grow, but there were always a few things that bothered me about the original algorithm, so a few months ago I've decided to try and address those issues.
With lots of help from the community, we've rebranded the library to Sqids (you can see the proposed changes here [1]).
The new library generates unique IDs faster and with a simpler algorithm. You can read all about it on the FAQ page [2] and try it out via the playground [3]. As always, feedback is welcome via HN or Github.
[0] https://github.com/vinkla/hashids/commit/98d72eac456aabbf2da...

psl

13 1,148 7.2 PHP

📚 PHP Standard Library - a modern, consistent, centralized, well-typed, non-blocking set of APIs for PHP programmers

Project mention: PHP libraries and tools | dev.to | 2023-10-18

azjezz/psl: PHP Standard Library - a modern, consistent, centralized, well-typed, non-blocking set of APIs for PHP programmers

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
constant_time_encoding

1 775 4.0 PHP

Constant-Time Character Encoding in PHP Projects

Project mention: PHP RFC: Deprecations for PHP 8.3 | /r/PHP | 2023-05-30

If you want some random string (e.g. for a random filename), you can use bin2hex(random_bytes(16)). This will generate a random 128 bit identifier using the CSPRNG. To be extra safe, use https://github.com/paragonie/constant_time_encoding instead of bin2hex. The constant time encoder prevents some additional (more obscure) attacks.

tinyID

1 32 0.0 PHP

Shorten and obfuscate IDs
base45

1 8 0.0 PHP

PHP based base45 encoder/decoder that is fully compatible with draft-faltstrom-base45-03
file

1 3 5.9 PHP

Class library to read, write and, view files in PHP. (by WebFiori)

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