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A small ColdFusion component to generate YouTube-like hashes from one or many numbers. Use hashids when you do not want to expose your database ids to the user. Read more at: http://www.hashids.org/

** NOTE: ** This component is based on the JavaScript version of Hashids.

Installation

1. Copy the hashids.cfc to your server

Updating from v0.3 to 1.0?

Read the CHANGELOG at the bottom of this readme!

Usage

Encoding one number

You can pass a unique salt value so your hashids differ from everyone else's. I use "this is my salt" as an example.

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var id = hashids.encode(12345);

id is now going to be:

NkK9

Decoding

Notice during decoding, same salt value is used:

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var numbers = hashids.decode("NkK9");

numbers is now going to be:

[ 12345 ]

Decoding with different salt

Decoding will not work if salt is changed:

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my pepper");

var numbers = hashids.decode("NkK9");

numbers is now going to be:

[]

Encoding several numbers

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var id = hashids.encode(683, 94108, 123, 5);

id is now going to be:

aBMswoO2UB3Sj

You can also pass an array:

var arr = [683, 94108, 123, 5];
var id = hashids.encode(arr);

Decoding is done the same way

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var numbers = hashids.decode("aBMswoO2UB3Sj");

numbers is now going to be:

[ 683, 94108, 123, 5 ]

Encoding and specifying minimum id length

Here we encode integer 1, and set the minimum id length to 8 (by default it's 0 -- meaning hashes will be the shortest possible length).

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt", 8);

var id = hashids.encode(1);

id is now going to be:

gB0NV05e

Decoding

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt", 8);

var numbers = hashids.decode("gB0NV05e");

numbers is now going to be:

[ 1 ]

Specifying custom id alphabet

Here we set the alphabet to consist of valid hex characters: "0123456789abcdef"

var hashids = new Hashids(salt="this is my salt", alphabet="0123456789abcdef");

var id = hashids.encode(1234567);

id is now going to be:

b332db5

Randomness

The primary purpose of hashids is to obfuscate ids. It's not meant or tested to be used for security purposes or compression. Having said that, this algorithm does try to make these hashes unguessable and unpredictable:

Repeating numbers

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var id = hashids.encode(5, 5, 5, 5);

You don't see any repeating patterns that might show there's 4 identical numbers in the hash:

1Wc8cwcE

Same with incremented numbers:

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var id = hashids.encode(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10);

id will be :

kRHnurhptKcjIDTWC3sx

Incrementing number ids:

var hashids = new Hashids("this is my salt");

var id1 = hashids.encode(1), /* NV */
	id2 = hashids.encode(2), /* 6m */
	id3 = hashids.encode(3), /* yD */
	id4 = hashids.encode(4), /* 2l */
	id5 = hashids.encode(5); /* rD */

Curses! #$%@

This code was written with the intent of placing created hashes in visible places - like the URL. Which makes it unfortunate if generated hashes accidentally formed a bad word.

Therefore, the algorithm tries to avoid generating most common English curse words. This is done by never placing the following letters next to each other:

c, C, s, S, f, F, h, H, u, U, i, I, t, T

Changelog

1.0.0

• Several public functions are renamed to be more appropriate:

  • Function encrypt() changed to encode()
  • Function decrypt() changed to decode()
  • Function encryptHex() changed to encodeHex()
  • Function decryptHex() changed to decodeHex()

  Hashids was designed to encode integers, primary ids at most. We've had several requests to encrypt sensitive data with Hashids and this is the wrong algorithm for that. So to encourage more appropriate use, encrypt/decrypt is being "downgraded" to encode/decode.

• Version tag added: 1.0

• README.md updated

0.1.0

• First commit

Contact

Follow me @dswitzer2

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file. You can use Hashids in open source projects and commercial products. Don't break the Internet. Kthxbye.