Laravel Username Generator Laravel Package

Added

• increment_max_attempts config option to avoid an infinite loop should increment make unique method get used.
• isUnique method to BaseDriver

Changed

• FindSimilarUsernames now provides a public getUsernameColumnName method.
• The makeUnique algorithm
  • Rather than simply counting the total number of similar usernames and adding 1 to it, we'll now handle it in stages - this would cause problems see #63.
  • Now we perform a check to see if the original algorithm works, then return if so.
  • If not, we use the list of similar usernames and get the one with the highest value, and add 1 to it, if unique, return it.
  • If not, we start at 0 and increment and check every value until we either get a unique one, or exhaust the increment_max_attempts

Deprecated

• FindSimilarUsernames getColumn method in favour of getUsernameColumnName (this likely affects no one unless you're specifically overriding that trait.)

Changed

• FindSimilarUsernames no longer needs a usernameColumn property in the parent model if the column is different than 'username' and the config file is not directly changed.

Added

• Missing types for some properties.
• Driver and HandlesConfig contracts.
• getDriver() method in Generator class.

Security

• Possible SQL injection vulnerability, see #54

Fixed

• Bug where findSimilarUsernames would return an incorrect number of similarities when using the REGEXP function with a separator.

Changed

• prefer_regexp config option by default is now false

Changed

• Added support for PHP 8.1
• Set minimum PHP version to 7.4

Added

• Added first and last hook for custom drivers
• Generator now supports multibyte characters (Cyrillic, etc.)
• Added options for converting to ascii and validating the input string
• Text will automatically be converted to ASCII by default

Changed

• Moved the EmailDriver hook to first
• Convert case now happens second rather than first

Fixed

• Fixes issue where custom dictionary nouns and adjectives were not being used

Fixed

• Fixed bug where a model using the GeneratesUsernames without the specified column would throw an error rather than return a random username. See#25

Fixed

• Bug fix that was preventing username generation on unique usernames, using the FindSimilarUsernames trait when the username had found nothing similar. See#23

Added

• Providing an empty string to the generator now randomly generates a random username from a list of a nouns and adjectives.

Fixed

• Fixed bug where setting a custom column in the model it wouldn't be respected. See #16
• Fixed support for overriding the getName method from GeneratesUsernames

Changed

• Added support for more PHP versions.

Added

• Added support for minimum length check.

Changed

• Switch to driver based conversion rather than name.

Added

• Support for email conversion through drivers.

Fixed

• Issue where separators were added when trimming extra characters.

Fixed

• Fixes assignment error bug.

Fixed

• Bug fix for getting attributes in Laravel 5.7

Deprecated

• makeUsername method. Will be removed in v2
• Generator constructor accepting a name

Changed

• Generator constructor accepts a name and config, name is deprecated.

Added

• generate method to replace makeUsername
• GeneratesUsernames trait
• generateFor method

Added

• Support for Laravel 5.6

Added

• Readme

• Support for makeUsername method

• Generator will now only accept an array of config as the optional constructing arguments

• UsernameGenerator facade