UUID

Abstract class containing UUID manipulation facilities.

UUID is an abstract base class.

Synopsis

uses('uuid');

Description

The UUID class contains facilities for generating and manipulating Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs), according to RFC 4122 (equivalent to ITU-T Rec. X.667, ISO/IEC 9834-8:2005).

Note

Instances of the UUID class are never created; all methods are static.

Example

• examples/uuids.php

Public Static Methods

• [[UUID::generate]](): Generate a new UUID
• [[UUID::nil]](): Return the null UUID as a string
• [[UUID::isUUID]](): Determine whether a string is a valid UUID or not
• [[UUID::canonical]](): Return the canonical form of a UUID string (i.e., no braces, no dashes, all lower-case)
• [[UUID::iri]](): Formats a UUID as an IRI
• [[UUID::parse]](): Parse a string containing a UUID and return an array representing its value.
• [[UUID::unparse]](): Constructs a UUID string given an array as returned by UUID::parse()