Laravel Username Generator Laravel Package

What's Changed

• Retry makeUnique until unique username found by @timothyasp in https://github.com/taylornetwork/laravel-username-generator/pull/63
• Apply fixes from StyleCI by @samueljtaylor in https://github.com/taylornetwork/laravel-username-generator/pull/64
• v2.8 by @samueljtaylor in https://github.com/taylornetwork/laravel-username-generator/pull/65

New Contributors

• @timothyasp made their first contribution in https://github.com/taylornetwork/laravel-username-generator/pull/63

Full Changelog: https://github.com/taylornetwork/laravel-username-generator/compare/2.7.0...2.8.0

CHANGELOG

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.

[Fixed]

• Possible SQL injection vulnerability, see #54
• 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

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

This release addresses issues relating to other character sets. See the readme for a full change log.

Fixes issue where dictionary nouns and adjectives were not being respected

• Added maximum length check.
• Added ability for pre-filled usernames to go through generate process to allow for consistent username styles.
• Added checking for similar usernames using REGEXP or LIKE (LIKE is a fallback if REGEXP fails).
• Added a check if a username is unique as is before checking for similar ones.
• Added checkMinLength and checkMaxLength hooks on base driver.
• Updated composer.json to support PHP 7.2 and above
• Updated readme for better Laravel 8+ quickstart

• This is a minor change but if you're using older versions of Laravel you may need to update your config file.
• Changed default User model from App\User to App\Models\User to mirror new Laravel versions (8.0+).
• Moved the adjective and noun word lists from the config file to a separate file, making the published config smaller and allowing you to create your own word lists if you wish.

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

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

As per #23

Added support for empty names to be converted to random usernames using a wordlist

Fix bug detailed in #16

See Drivers section in readme.md

See Changes

This fixes an issue where separators were added when trimming extra characters.

Example (using '-' as separator):

$generator->generate('123 this is a test!');

Would return:

'----this-is-a-test-'

If no separator was used this behaviour would not be seen.

• Changed makeUsername method to generate (makeUsername STILL has support, use generate preferably)
• Added generateFor method which allows you to pass a model for the generator to grab the name directly
• Added GeneratesUsernames trait which will automatically add a username on model saving if it's null
• Changed the constructor to allow an array parameter to set config