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:

1. Add the following instruction to the "require" object in your composer.json:

"styde/seeder": "^1.0"

or simply execute on your console:

composer require styde/seeder

Then run composer update.

2. After Styde Seeder is installed, you need to add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Styde\Seeder\SeederServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
],

3. Then add the following to your database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php:

<?php

use Styde\Seeder\BaseSeeder;

class DatabaseSeeder extends BaseSeeder
{
    protected $truncate = array(
        //'users',
    );

    protected $seeders = array(
        //'User',
    );
}

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:

php artisan styde:seeder NameOfSeeder

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:

php artisan styde:seeder User

Completing the Model in getModel() and some attributes with faker data:

<?php

use Styde\Seeder\Seeder;
use Faker\Generator;
use App\User;

class UserTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
    protected $total = 50;

    public function getModel()
    {
        return new User();
    }

    public function getDummyData(Generator $faker, array $customValues = array())
    {
        return [
            'name' => $faker->name,
            'email' => $faker->email,
            'password'  => bcrypt('secret'),
        ];
    }
}

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:

/**
     * Create one instance or a collection of the given model and persist them to the database.
     *
     * @param  string  $seeder
     * @param  integer $total
     * @param  array   $customValues
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    function seed($seeder, $total = 1, array $customValues = array())

For example to create 5 users seed('User', 5) or to create one user with specific data seed('User', ['name' => 'John', 'email' => 'john@example.com']).

/**
     * Create one instance or a collection of a given model.
     *
     * @param  string  $seeder
     * @param  integer $total
     * @param  array   $customValues
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    function model($seeder, $total = 1, array $customValues = array())

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)