UUID primary key in Eloquent model is stored as uuid but returns as 0
Nevermind, I found the answer after searching through the docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/eloquent#eloquent-model-conventions
Under the section "Primary Keys" there's a little blurb:
In addition, Eloquent assumes that the primary key is an incrementing integer value. If you wish to use a non-incrementing primary key, you must set the $incrementing property on your model to false.
If you're going to use a UUID you have to set this property to false. Once I did that at the top of my model it worked.
Since all of my models are going to use UUIDs I extracted the UUID logic to a parent class. Here's what it looks like:
class UuidModel extends Model{ public $incrementing = false; /** * Sets the UUID value for the primary key field. */ protected function setUUID() { $this->id = preg_replace('/\./', '', uniqid('bpm', true)); }}