Laravel 8 Factory Tinker Example Tutorial
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This article will provide some of the most important example laravel 8 factory tinker example. you'll learn laravel 8 factory seeder. step by step explain laravel 8 factories. In this article, we will implement a laravel 8 factory tutorial. Let's see bellow example laravel 8 dummy record generate.
As we know testing is very important part of any web development project. Sometime we may require to add hundreds records in your users table, OR maybe thousands of records. Also think about if you require to check pagination. then you have to add some records for testing. So what you will do it at that that moment, You will add manually thousands of records ? What you do ?. If you add manually thousands of records then it can be take more time.
However, Laravel has tinker that provide to create dummy records to your model table. so in laravel application they provide User model factory created by default. so you can see how to create records using factory bellow:
Generate Dummy Users:
php artisan tinker
User::factory()->count(5)->create()
This by default created factory of laravel. you can also see that on following url: database/factories/UserFactory.php.
Create Custom Factory:
But when you need to create dummy records for your products, items or admin table then you have to create new factory using tinker command. here i will give you simple example of creating product factory and you will understand how it works. so let's create Product Model as like bellow:
app\Models\Product.php
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Product extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'slug', 'detail'
];
}
now let's create our custom factory using bellow command:
php artisan make:factory ProductFactory --model=Product
Now they created new factory class for product and you can add as bellow code:
database\factories\ProductFactory.php
<?php
namespace Database\Factories;
use App\Models\Product;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
class ProductFactory extends Factory
{
/**
* The name of the factory's corresponding model.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $model = Product::class;
/**
* Define the model's default state.
*
* @return array
*/
public function definition()
{
return [
'name' => $this->faker->name,
'slug' => Str::slug($this->faker->name),
'detail' => $this->faker->text,
];
}
}
Using Faker you can be used to generate the following data types:
Numbers
Lorem text
Person i.e. titles, names, gender etc.
Addresses
Phone numbers
Companies
Text
DateTime
Internet i.e. domains, URLs, emails etc.
User Agents
Payments i.e. MasterCard
Colour
Files
Images
uuid
Barcodes
As you see above you can simply use data types. Now we are going to create 500 records of products table by following command:
Generate Dummy Product:
php artisan tinker
Product::factory()->count(500)->create()
So i hope you created your 500 dummy records on products table.
Output:
I hope it can help you...
Hardik Savani
I'm a full-stack developer, entrepreneur and owner of ItSolutionstuff.com. I live in India and I love to write tutorials and tips that can help to other artisan. I am a big fan of PHP, Laravel, Angular, Vue, Node, Javascript, JQuery, Codeigniter and Bootstrap from the early stage. I believe in Hardworking and Consistency.
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