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Package seeder
Short Description Laravel's improved seeders
License MIT
Homepage https://styde.net
Informations about the package seeder
Styde Seeder
This package for Laravel allow seeding your database with faker data. It is an alternative to Model Factories of Laravel 5.1. With this package you can seed a model of your application and its related models too, using the package Faker.
Installation
To install through Composer:
- Add the following instruction to the "require" object in your composer.json:
or simply execute on your console:
Then run composer update
.
-
After Styde Seeder is installed, you need to add the service provider to the
providers
array inconfig/app.php
- Then add the following to your
database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php
:
Specify the tables of database you want to $truncate
(order does not matter since the foreign key check will be disabled) Then add the $seeders
, by default it will autocomplete the suffix "TableSeeder"
so no need to add it.
Usage
To create a new seeder file you can run:
And a new file called NameOfSeederTableSeeder.php
will be created at database/seeds
directory.
Then complete your seeder with new instance of the Model in the getModel()
method and its attributes in the getDummyData
method. You can use Faker for generates fake data, for example:
Completing the Model in getModel() and some attributes with faker data:
Once you run the seed command in Laravel php artisan db:seed
it will create 50 users with random data by default.
Helpers
Also, you can use these two helpers when you are working with tests or php artisan tinker
:
For example to create 5 users seed('User', 5)
or to create one user with specific data seed('User', ['name' => 'John', 'email' => '[email protected]'])
.
With this helper you only can create an instance or collection, but will not be persisted to the database.
About
Styde Seeder was created by Duilio Palacios as part of the code for the course Crea tu primera aplicación con Laravel 5 (in Spanish)