API: external UUID to internal ID in validation or controller or ?

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  1. hashids

    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.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. Optimus

    🤖 Id obfuscation based on Knuth's multiplicative hashing method for PHP.

    To obfuscate id there are several solutions, other than the already mentioned hashids you can try this one https://github.com/jenssegers/optimus

  4. laravel-optimus

    Transform your internal id's to obfuscated integers based on Knuth's integer hash. Laravel wrapper for the Optimus Library by Jens Segers with multiple connections support.

    See also: https://github.com/cybercog/laravel-optimus/issues/29

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