fipamo/app/Services/StringService.php

<?php

namespace App\Services;

class StringService
{
    public function __construct()
    {
    }

    public static function createUUID()
    {
        if (function_exists('com_create_guid') === true) {
            return trim(com_create_guid(), '{}');
        }

        return sprintf(
            '%04X%04X-%04X-%04X-%04X-%04X%04X%04X',
            mt_rand(0, 65535),
            mt_rand(0, 65535),
            mt_rand(0, 65535),
            mt_rand(16384, 20479),
            mt_rand(32768, 49151),
            mt_rand(0, 65535),
            mt_rand(0, 65535),
            mt_rand(0, 65535)
        );
    }

    public static function safeString($string)
    {
        return strtolower(
            trim(
                preg_replace(
                    '~[^0-9a-z]+~i',
                    '_',
                    html_entity_decode(
                        preg_replace(
                            '~&([a-z]{1,2})(?:acute|cedil|circ|grave|lig|orn|ring|slash|th|tilde|uml);~i',
                            '$1',
                            htmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')
                        ),
                        ENT_QUOTES,
                        'UTF-8'
                    )
                ),
                '-'
            )
        );
    }
}