poing/beacon

Laravel package to generate tracking codes.

0.0.0 2025-07-22 23:15 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• illuminate/console: ^12.20
• illuminate/events: ^12.20
• illuminate/filesystem: ^12.20
• illuminate/support: ^12.20

Requires (Dev)

• orchestra/testbench: ^10.4
• php-coveralls/php-coveralls: ^2.8
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.5

MIT

• poing

README

This project started with the need for tracking and confirmation codes. I wanted a simple URL and I wanted the tracking codes to be part of a group.

It basically settles on using time() for the current epoch timestamp.

My technical need for the generation of the tracking codes is around 1/min. If you need multiple tracking codes per second, this project is not for you!!

All this project really does is, takes the timestamp and applies a hash function. Where the hash, like md5sum(time()) is split into multiple confirmation codes.

example.com/timestamp
["d7e6", "d55b", "a379", "a13d", "08c2", "5d15", "faf2", "a23b"]

This would allow a single timestamp to track up to 8 items, with a single URL.