[Laravel 7 Lesson 12] Factories & Seeders (Seed database with faker data)

[Laravel 7 Lesson 12] Factories & Seeders (Seed database with faker data)

In the 12th lesson of our Laravel 7 from the ground up series, we're going to start by removing our PostController, Post Model, and posts table and associated table migration.

Crazy? How come you ask, well honestly -- because we can create all of those files plus two more within a single artisan command.

Within four minutes, we will review our lesson, remove the model, controller, and migration, and then re-create the model, controller, and migration.

For the remainder of our lesson, we will focus on factories and seeders, ultimately populating our database with dummy data.

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[yongkitanumiharjo]

good content and not boring. this is GOLD

[fadhilinjagi]

Great video. I think I'm going to follow the whole tutorial. It's step by step and easy to understand.

[mojtabavahdati]

I've liked this video because it's obvious that the author has put his precious time for making this video as much enjoyable as possible, but please notice that Laravel seeders can run query builders as well, they're not limited to use factories. That can be quite useful when the data we're seeding is not completely random to be created using the Faker. Thank you anyways.

[ahmedsobhy]

I think u are one of the most underrated channels on youtube ... great video man, u got my sub for sure

[justtestingmycurrentskills]

How do you do one to one relationships with Factories?

[arlingholguin]

Como agrego un campo faker de una fecha yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss con la condición que sea en el mismo mes que se crea. Tengo esto pero no me genera el formato y por otro lado me genera un fecha muy distante.
'start' => $this->faker->DateTime,

'end' => $this->faker->DateTime,

[BhupendraTool]

my tinker is working but when i try seeder it shows ( throw new class [$concrete] does not exist.", 0, $e)
my model name is Todos,





Target class [TodosSeeder] does not exist.

at
803|
804| try {
805| $reflector = new ReflectionClass($concrete);
806| } catch (ReflectionException $e) {
> 807| throw new class [$concrete] does not exists")
ReflectionException::("Class TodosSeeder does not exist")

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[pabloinberlin]

I recommend having a look at how CakePHP deals with fixtures using factories: