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Faker Small English

Faker Small English is a PHP library that generates fake data for you. Whether you need to bootstrap your database, create good-looking XML documents, fill-in your persistence to stress test it, or anonymize data taken from a production service, this is for you.

Faker Small English is a Smaller, English-only (sorry) version of François Zaninotto's fantastic Faker package - which has been sunsetted (abandoned) due to the environmental impact of its larger (megabytes) size, trying to code for so many different languages and locales. Please RESPECT this and do NOT download/install the original package.

Faker requires PHP >= 5.3.3.

The original Faker is archived. Read the reasons behind this decision here: https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/10/21/sunsetting-faker.html

I (Matt Smith) have created this small version of Faker to be able to continue to encourage my students in populating their projects with plausible fake data, without the environmental impact of a large codebase.

I offer no warranty for general use - but it's open source, and if you think it would be useful, go ahead and use it :-)

I've copied and edited this README from the orinal - and so you may find useful info (e..g CLI tools, ORM providers etc.) in the docs for the original project on Gituhub - but please do NOT download/install the original package, since that would mean many megabytes and its associated environmental impact. Feel free to post an issue if there is some issue with my fork, and it's something you think my students need fixed for their college PHP web application development.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Basic Usage
• Formatters
  • Base
  • Lorem Ipsum Text
  • Person
  • Address
  • Phone Number
  • Company
  • Real Text
  • Date and Time
  • Internet
  • User Agent
  • Payment
  • Color
  • File
  • Image
  • Uuid
  • Barcode
  • Miscellaneous
  • Biased
  • Html Lorem
• Modifiers
• License

Installation

Basic Usage

Autoloading

Faker Small English suppers PSR-4 autoloaders.

alternatively, you can use any another PSR-4 compliant autoloader

Create fake data

Use Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Factory::create() to create and initialize a faker generator, which can generate data by accessing properties named after the type of data you want.

Even if this example shows a property access, each call to $faker->name() yields a different (random) result. This is because Faker uses __get() magic, and forwards Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Generator->$property calls to Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Generator->format($property).

IMPORTANT You'll get deprecation error if you ommit the () after the property name ... some of this documentation may be in the form of ->name instead of ->name()

Formatters

Each of the generator properties (like name, address, and lorem) are called "formatters". A faker generator has many of them, packaged in "providers". Here is a list of the bundled formatters in the default locale.

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Base

randomDigit             // 7
randomDigitNot(5)       // 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9
randomDigitNotNull      // 5
randomNumber($nbDigits = NULL, $strict = false) // 79907610
randomFloat($nbMaxDecimals = NULL, $min = 0, $max = NULL) // 48.8932
numberBetween($min = 1000, $max = 9000) // 8567
randomLetter            // 'b'
// returns randomly ordered subsequence of a provided array
randomElements($array = array ('a','b','c'), $count = 1) // array('c')
randomElement($array = array ('a','b','c')) // 'b'
shuffle('hello, world') // 'rlo,h eoldlw'
shuffle(array(1, 2, 3)) // array(2, 1, 3)
numerify('Hello ###') // 'Hello 609'
lexify('Hello ???') // 'Hello wgt'
bothify('Hello ##??') // 'Hello 42jz'
asciify('Hello ***') // 'Hello R6+'
regexify('[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}'); // [email protected]

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Lorem

word                                             // 'aut'
words($nb = 3, $asText = false)                  // array('porro', 'sed', 'magni')
sentence($nbWords = 6, $variableNbWords = true)  // 'Sit vitae voluptas sint non voluptates.'
sentences($nb = 3, $asText = false)              // array('Optio quos qui illo error.', 'Laborum vero a officia id corporis.', 'Saepe provident esse hic eligendi.')
paragraph($nbSentences = 3, $variableNbSentences = true) // 'Ut ab voluptas sed a nam. Sint autem inventore aut officia aut aut blanditiis. Ducimus eos odit amet et est ut eum.'
paragraphs($nb = 3, $asText = false)             // array('Quidem ut sunt et quidem est accusamus aut. Fuga est placeat rerum ut. Enim ex eveniet facere sunt.', 'Aut nam et eum architecto fugit repellendus illo. Qui ex esse veritatis.', 'Possimus omnis aut incidunt sunt. Asperiores incidunt iure sequi cum culpa rem. Rerum exercitationem est rem.')
text($maxNbChars = 200)                          // 'Fuga totam reiciendis qui architecto fugiat nemo. Consequatur recusandae qui cupiditate eos quod.'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\en_US\Person

title($gender = null|'male'|'female')     // 'Ms.'
titleMale                                 // 'Mr.'
titleFemale                               // 'Ms.'
suffix                                    // 'Jr.'
name($gender = null|'male'|'female')      // 'Dr. Zane Stroman'
firstName($gender = null|'male'|'female') // 'Maynard'
firstNameMale                             // 'Maynard'
firstNameFemale                           // 'Rachel'
lastName                                  // 'Zulauf'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\en_US\Address

cityPrefix                          // 'Lake'
secondaryAddress                    // 'Suite 961'
state                               // 'NewMexico'
stateAbbr                           // 'OH'
citySuffix                          // 'borough'
streetSuffix                        // 'Keys'
buildingNumber                      // '484'
city                                // 'West Judge'
streetName                          // 'Keegan Trail'
streetAddress                       // '439 Karley Loaf Suite 897'
postcode                            // '17916'
address                             // '8888 Cummings Vista Apt. 101, Susanbury, NY 95473'
country                             // 'Falkland Islands (Malvinas)'
latitude($min = -90, $max = 90)     // 77.147489
longitude($min = -180, $max = 180)  // 86.211205

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\en_US\PhoneNumber

phoneNumber             // '201-886-0269 x3767'
tollFreePhoneNumber     // '(888) 937-7238'
e164PhoneNumber     // '+27113456789'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\en_US\Company

catchPhrase             // 'Monitored regional contingency'
bs                      // 'e-enable robust architectures'
company                 // 'Bogan-Treutel'
companySuffix           // 'and Sons'
jobTitle                // 'Cashier'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\en_US\Text

realText($maxNbChars = 200, $indexSize = 2) // "And yet I wish you could manage it?) 'And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would YOU like cats if you were never even spoke to Time!' 'Perhaps not,' Alice replied."

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\DateTime

unixTime($max = 'now')                // 58781813
dateTime($max = 'now', $timezone = null) // DateTime('2008-04-25 08:37:17', 'UTC')
dateTimeAD($max = 'now', $timezone = null) // DateTime('1800-04-29 20:38:49', 'Europe/Paris')
iso8601($max = 'now')                 // '1978-12-09T10:10:29+0000'
date($format = 'Y-m-d', $max = 'now') // '1979-06-09'
time($format = 'H:i:s', $max = 'now') // '20:49:42'
dateTimeBetween($startDate = '-30 years', $endDate = 'now', $timezone = null) // DateTime('2003-03-15 02:00:49', 'Africa/Lagos')
dateTimeInInterval($startDate = '-30 years', $interval = '+ 5 days', $timezone = null) // DateTime('2003-03-15 02:00:49', 'Antartica/Vostok')
dateTimeThisCentury($max = 'now', $timezone = null)     // DateTime('1915-05-30 19:28:21', 'UTC')
dateTimeThisDecade($max = 'now', $timezone = null)      // DateTime('2007-05-29 22:30:48', 'Europe/Paris')
dateTimeThisYear($max = 'now', $timezone = null)        // DateTime('2011-02-27 20:52:14', 'Africa/Lagos')
dateTimeThisMonth($max = 'now', $timezone = null)       // DateTime('2011-10-23 13:46:23', 'Antarctica/Vostok')
amPm($max = 'now')                    // 'pm'
dayOfMonth($max = 'now')              // '04'
dayOfWeek($max = 'now')               // 'Friday'
month($max = 'now')                   // '06'
monthName($max = 'now')               // 'January'
year($max = 'now')                    // '1993'
century                               // 'VI'
timezone                              // 'Europe/Paris'

Methods accepting a $timezone argument default to date_default_timezone_get(). You can pass a custom timezone string to each method, or define a custom timezone for all time methods at once using $faker::setDefaultTimezone($timezone).

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Internet

email                   // '[email protected]'
safeEmail               // '[email protected]'
freeEmail               // '[email protected]'
companyEmail            // '[email protected]'
freeEmailDomain         // 'yahoo.com'
safeEmailDomain         // 'example.org'
userName                // 'wade55'
password                // 'k&|X+a45*2['
domainName              // 'wolffdeckow.net'
domainWord              // 'feeney'
tld                     // 'biz'
url                     // 'http://www.skilesdonnelly.biz/aut-accusantium-ut-architecto-sit-et.html'
slug                    // 'aut-repellat-commodi-vel-itaque-nihil-id-saepe-nostrum'
ipv4                    // '109.133.32.252'
localIpv4               // '10.242.58.8'
ipv6                    // '8e65:933d:22ee:a232:f1c1:2741:1f10:117c'
macAddress              // '43:85:B7:08:10:CA'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\UserAgent

userAgent              // 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows CE) AppleWebKit/5350 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.888.0 Safari/5350'
chrome                 // 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X 10_6_5) AppleWebKit/5312 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.894.0 Safari/5312'
firefox                // 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linuxi686; rv:7.0) Gecko/20101231 Firefox/3.6'
safari                 // 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_7_1 rv:3.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.11.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.11.3'
opera                  // 'Opera/8.25 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US) Presto/2.9.188 Version/10.00'
internetExplorer       // 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Trident/3.0)'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Payment

creditCardType          // 'MasterCard'
creditCardNumber        // '4485480221084675'
creditCardExpirationDate // 04/13
creditCardExpirationDateString // '04/13'
creditCardDetails       // array('MasterCard', '4485480221084675', 'Aleksander Nowak', '04/13')
// Generates a random IBAN. Set $countryCode to null for a random country
iban($countryCode)      // 'IT31A8497112740YZ575DJ28BP4'
swiftBicNumber          // 'RZTIAT22263'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Color

hexcolor               // '#fa3cc2'
rgbcolor               // '0,255,122'
rgbColorAsArray        // array(0,255,122)
rgbCssColor            // 'rgb(0,255,122)'
safeColorName          // 'fuchsia'
colorName              // 'Gainsbor'
hslColor               // '340,50,20'
hslColorAsArray        // array(340,50,20)

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\File

fileExtension          // 'avi'
mimeType               // 'video/x-msvideo'
// Copy a random file from the source to the target directory and returns the fullpath or filename
file($sourceDir = '/tmp', $targetDir = '/tmp') // '/path/to/targetDir/13b73edae8443990be1aa8f1a483bc27.jpg'
file($sourceDir, $targetDir, false) // '13b73edae8443990be1aa8f1a483bc27.jpg'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Image

// Image generation provided by LoremPixel (http://lorempixel.com/)
imageUrl($width = 640, $height = 480) // 'http://lorempixel.com/640/480/'
imageUrl($width, $height, 'cats')     // 'http://lorempixel.com/800/600/cats/'
imageUrl($width, $height, 'cats', true, 'Faker') // 'http://lorempixel.com/800/400/cats/Faker'
imageUrl($width, $height, 'cats', true, 'Faker', true) // 'http://lorempixel.com/gray/800/400/cats/Faker/' Monochrome image
image($dir = '/tmp', $width = 640, $height = 480) // '/tmp/13b73edae8443990be1aa8f1a483bc27.jpg'
image($dir, $width, $height, 'cats')  // 'tmp/13b73edae8443990be1aa8f1a483bc27.jpg' it's a cat!
image($dir, $width, $height, 'cats', false) // '13b73edae8443990be1aa8f1a483bc27.jpg' it's a filename without path
image($dir, $width, $height, 'cats', true, false) // it's a no randomize images (default: `true`)
image($dir, $width, $height, 'cats', true, true, 'Faker') // 'tmp/13b73edae8443990be1aa8f1a483bc27.jpg' it's a cat with 'Faker' text. Default, `null`.

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Uuid

uuid                   // '7e57d004-2b97-0e7a-b45f-5387367791cd'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Barcode

ean13          // '4006381333931'
ean8           // '73513537'
isbn13         // '9790404436093'
isbn10         // '4881416324'

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Miscellaneous

boolean // false
boolean($chanceOfGettingTrue = 50) // true
md5           // 'de99a620c50f2990e87144735cd357e7'
sha1          // 'f08e7f04ca1a413807ebc47551a40a20a0b4de5c'
sha256        // '0061e4c60dac5c1d82db0135a42e00c89ae3a333e7c26485321f24348c7e98a5'
locale        // en_UK
countryCode   // UK
languageCode  // en
currencyCode  // EUR
emoji         // 😁

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\Biased

// get a random number between 10 and 20,
// with more chances to be close to 20
biasedNumberBetween($min = 10, $max = 20, $function = 'sqrt')

Mattsmithdev\FakerSmallEnglish\Provider\HtmlLorem

//Generate HTML document which is no more than 2 levels deep, and no more than 3 elements wide at any level.
randomHtml(2,3)   // <html><head><title>Aut illo dolorem et accusantium eum.</title></head><body><form action="example.com" method="POST"><label for="username">sequi</label><input type="text" id="username"><label for="password">et</label><input type="password" id="password"></form><b>Id aut saepe non mollitia voluptas voluptas.</b><table><thead><tr><tr>Non consequatur.</tr><tr>Incidunt est.</tr><tr>Aut voluptatem.</tr><tr>Officia voluptas rerum quo.</tr><tr>Asperiores similique.</tr></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Sapiente dolorum dolorem sint laboriosam commodi qui.</td><td>Commodi nihil nesciunt eveniet quo repudiandae.</td><td>Voluptates explicabo numquam distinctio necessitatibus repellat.</td><td>Provident ut doloremque nam eum modi aspernatur.</td><td>Iusto inventore.</td></tr><tr><td>Animi nihil ratione id mollitia libero ipsa quia tempore.</td><td>Velit est officia et aut tenetur dolorem sed mollitia expedita.</td><td>Modi modi repudiandae pariatur voluptas rerum ea incidunt non molestiae eligendi eos deleniti.</td><td>Exercitationem voluptatibus dolor est iste quod molestiae.</td><td>Quia reiciendis.</td></tr><tr><td>Inventore impedit exercitationem voluptatibus rerum cupiditate.</td><td>Qui.</td><td>Aliquam.</td><td>Autem nihil aut et.</td><td>Dolor ut quia error.</td></tr><tr><td>Enim facilis iusto earum et minus rerum assumenda quis quia.</td><td>Reprehenderit ut sapiente occaecati voluptatum dolor voluptatem vitae qui velit.</td><td>Quod fugiat non.</td><td>Sunt nobis totam mollitia sed nesciunt est deleniti cumque.</td><td>Repudiandae quo.</td></tr><tr><td>Modi dicta libero quisquam doloremque qui autem.</td><td>Voluptatem aliquid saepe laudantium facere eos sunt dolor.</td><td>Est eos quis laboriosam officia expedita repellendus quia natus.</td><td>Et neque delectus quod fugit enim repudiandae qui.</td><td>Fugit soluta sit facilis facere repellat culpa magni voluptatem maiores tempora.</td></tr><tr><td>Enim dolores doloremque.</td><td>Assumenda voluptatem eum perferendis exercitationem.</td><td>Quasi in fugit deserunt ea perferendis sunt nemo consequatur dolorum soluta.</td><td>Maxime repellat qui numquam voluptatem est modi.</td><td>Alias rerum rerum hic hic eveniet.</td></tr><tr><td>Tempore voluptatem.</td><td>Eaque.</td><td>Et sit quas fugit iusto.</td><td>Nemo nihil rerum dignissimos et esse.</td><td>Repudiandae ipsum numquam.</td></tr><tr><td>Nemo sunt quia.</td><td>Sint tempore est neque ducimus harum sed.</td><td>Dicta placeat atque libero nihil.</td><td>Et qui aperiam temporibus facilis eum.</td><td>Ut dolores qui enim et maiores nesciunt.</td></tr><tr><td>Dolorum totam sint debitis saepe laborum.</td><td>Quidem corrupti ea.</td><td>Cum voluptas quod.</td><td>Possimus consequatur quasi dolorem ut et.</td><td>Et velit non hic labore repudiandae quis.</td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>

Modifiers

Faker provides three special providers, unique(), optional(), and valid(), to be called before any provider.

If you would like to use a modifier with a value not generated by Faker, use the passthrough() method. passthrough() simply returns whatever value it was given.

License

Faker is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.