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Informations about the package identifier

Extension Identifier

A high-performance PHP extension for working with 128-bit identifiers including UUIDs and ULIDs.

Features

Installation

Requirements

If you use devenv, the repository includes a ready-to-use environment with PHP, PHP development headers (php-config), Composer, Zig, and ZLS:

Inside the devenv shell, you can use the provided helper scripts:

Build and Install

For production installation:

Enable Extension

Add to your php.ini:

Quick Start

Testing with Fixed State

Thread Safety

This extension is fully thread-safe for ULID monotonic generation in multi-threaded PHP environments (ZTS builds). The implementation uses PHP's TSRM (Thread Safe Resource Manager) to ensure proper thread isolation.

How Thread Safety Works

Compatibility

Build Considerations

The same extension binary works for both ZTS (thread-safe) and non-ZTS PHP builds:

For web servers that use threading (like Apache mod_worker or IIS), ensure you're using a ZTS PHP build to get full thread safety benefits.

API Documentation

Check the stub file for a detailed API documentation.

Testing

Tests are written with PHPUnit under test/Test and are run against the locally built extension.

With devenv:

Benchmarks

Benchmarks use PHPBench and compare this extension against symfony/uid and ramsey/uuid.

With devenv:

Contributing

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create a feature branch
  3. Add tests for new functionality
  4. Ensure all tests pass (zig build test)
  5. Submit a pull request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

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