Using for Short URLs?

[ash-jc-allen]

Hi,
I've recently written a Laravel package (https://github.com/ash-jc-allen/short-url) that can be used for creating short URLs.

I give the developer who's using it the option to set the length of their URL key (the unique, short part of the URL). In testing, someone realised that if a user runs out of unique combinations at the specified length that it will break.

I'm thinking of changing the 'URL key length' to a 'minimim URL key length' instead.
So, as an example, if all possible 3 character long strings are taken, a 4 character long one will be made instead.

I need to store the unique keys in the database. So, would this package be suitable for generating the unique keys that I need? Would it be able to automatically increase its length if I ran out of possible combinations at a certain length?

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense. Thanks in advance!

[vinkla]

Yes, I think the Hashids package could be a good fit in your scenario.