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Reversible, type-prefixed, non-enumerable tokens for your Doctrine entities — so you never expose ?id=42 in a URL again. A token looks like per_3f9k2: a short type prefix plus an obfuscated id.

Internally everything stays a typed integer id; at the HTTP boundary everything is an opaque, type-tagged, non-guessable token — with zero per-controller boilerplate.

The obfuscation uses Optimus (Knuth multiplicative hashing) so ids are not sequential or guessable, then base-36 encodes them for compactness.

Why

Sequential integer ids leak information (record counts, growth rate) and invite enumeration attacks. This bundle keeps ids private without you having to thread a separate "slug" column or hand-encode anything.

Attribute-driven. Mark an entity #[Tokenable(...)] — that's the whole opt-in.
Automatic in URLs. The router is decorated, so path('route', {id: entity}) (or an int) emits a token. Nothing to remember in templates.
Automatic in controllers. Type-hint the entity in your action and receive the loaded object — or a clean 404 for an invalid/unknown/mismatched token.
|token Twig filter for the odd manual case.
Profiler panel listing every token in/out of the request, plus config validation (duplicate prefixes, colliding triplets, out-of-range primes).

Requirements

PHP 8.4+
Symfony 7.1+ / 8.x
Doctrine ORM 3+

Installation

composer require laulamanapps/tokenable-symfony

// config/bundles.php
return [
    // ...
    LauLamanApps\Tokenable\TokenableBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

For the app:tokenable:generate helper command, also install phpseclib (dev only):

composer require --dev phpseclib/phpseclib:^2.0

Configuration

Everything works out of the box; configuration is optional. Defaults shown:

# config/packages/tokenable.yaml
tokenable:
    separator: '_'   # placed between the prefix and the obfuscated id — "per_3f9k2"
    base: 36         # radix for the obfuscated id (2-36); 36 gives the shortest tokens

separator lets you switch to e.g. - (giving per-3f9k2) if _ clashes with your routing or slugs. It may be more than one character. base trades token length for the alphabet used (base 16 → 0-9a-f, base 36 → 0-9a-z).

Changing separator or base changes every token string, so treat them as set-once for a given deployment — existing URLs/bookmarks encoded under the old settings won't decode.

Usage

1. Mark an entity tokenable

Generate a fresh triplet:

bin/console app:tokenable:generate per
# → #[Tokenable(prefix: 'per', prime: 2062703171, inverse: 392512107, random: 628259887)]

Paste it onto the entity:

use LauLamanApps\Tokenable\Attribute\Tokenable;

#[ORM\Entity]
#[Tokenable(prefix: 'per', prime: 2062703171, inverse: 392512107, random: 628259887)]
class Person
{
    public function getId(): PersonId { /* ... */ }
}

Each entity gets its own triplet so tokens never collide across types. The prefix must be unique and must not contain the _ separator. getId() may return an int or any value object exposing getValue(): int.

Inheritance (abstract base + discriminator map)

Declare #[Tokenable] once on an abstract Doctrine base that uses inheritance. Every concrete subclass inherits the attribute and shares one prefix and one token space:

#[ORM\Entity]
#[ORM\InheritanceType('JOINED')]
#[ORM\DiscriminatorColumn(name: 'type', type: 'string')]
#[ORM\DiscriminatorMap(['direct_debit' => DirectDebitMandate::class, 'credit_card' => CreditCardMandate::class])]
#[Tokenable(prefix: 'mnd', prime: 1580030173, inverse: 59260789, random: 1163945558)]
abstract class AbstractMandate { /* ... */ }

encode(new DirectDebitMandate(...)) produces an mnd_… token; decoding resolves the prefix to the abstract base and Doctrine's discriminator loads the concrete subclass. Actions may type-hint either the abstract base or a concrete subclass — a token pointing at a sibling subclass then yields a 404. Do not add a second #[Tokenable] to the subclasses: a duplicated prefix is rejected, and a distinct one would break the shared token space.

2. Generate tokens (automatic)

{# The router decorator encodes the entity/id into a token for you #}
<a href="{{ path('person_show', {person: person}) }}">{{ person.name }}</a>

{# Or explicitly #}
{{ person|token }}   {# per_3f9k2 #}

3. Resolve tokens (automatic)

#[Route('/people/{person}', name: 'person_show')]
public function __invoke(Person $person): Response
{
    // $person is already loaded from the token in the URL.
}

The value resolver runs at priority 200 (before Doctrine's own EntityValueResolver). An invalid token, an unknown prefix, or a prefix that resolves to the wrong entity type all produce a 404 — unless the argument is nullable, in which case a not-found entity yields null.

Programmatic access

Inject the Tokenizer service anywhere:

use LauLamanApps\Tokenable\Tokenizer;

public function __construct(private readonly Tokenizer $tokenizer) {}

$token       = $this->tokenizer->encode($person);      // 'per_3f9k2'
[$class, $id] = $this->tokenizer->decode('per_3f9k2');  // [Person::class, 42]

Debugging a token from the CLI

app:tokenable:convert converts a single identifier when you pass one, or drops into an interactive REPL when you don't:

# One-shot: decode a token directly
bin/console app:tokenable:convert per_3f9k2
# → Class: App\...\Person   Id: 42

# Interactive: feed it tokens or integers repeatedly (integers prompt for the class)
bin/console app:tokenable:convert
# Identifier: per_3f9k2   → Class: App\...\Person   Id: 42
# Identifier: 42          → (pick class) → Token: per_3f9k2

Commands

Command	Purpose
`app:tokenable:generate <prefix>`	Generate a fresh prime/inverse/random triplet (needs `phpseclib/phpseclib`)
`app:tokenable:convert [token]`	Convert the given token/id directly, or run interactively when omitted

How it fits together

Service	Role
`Tokenizer`	Encode/decode; discovers `#[Tokenable]` entities via Doctrine metadata
`TokenableValueResolver`	Controller argument → loaded entity
`TokenableUrlGenerator`	Router decorator — encodes ids/entities in `path()`/`generateUrl()`
`TokenExtension`	The `
`TokenCollector`	Web-profiler panel (only registered when the profiler is enabled)
`GenerateTokenableCommand` / `ConvertTokenCommand`	The console commands above

Development

composer install
composer test      # PHPUnit
composer phpstan   # PHPStan (level max)

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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