A PHP implementation of collision-resistant ids. You can read more about CUIDs from the official project website.
You can install visus/cuid2 as a composer package:
Important
The PHP extension GMP is required in order to use this library.
composer require visus/cuid2<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
// new (default length of 24)
$cuid = new Visus\Cuid2\Cuid2();
// implicit casting
echo $cuid; // apr5hhh4ox45krsg9gycbs9k
// explicit casting
echo $cuid->toString(); // apr5hhh4ox45krsg9gycbs9k
// new (with custom length)
$cuid = new Visus\Cuid2\Cuid2(10);
echo $cuid; // pekw02xwsd