For years I have been using laboriously hand entered test data when developing. Perhaps because coding for me was a hobby and most of the things I was doing didn’t need oodles of sample data
But recently after doing a Laravel tutorial I was introduced to the Faker library and discovered that the CakePHP 3.x migration utility Phinx also can make use of Fakers database seeding abilities too
It’s such a relief to finally know how to take the tedium from sample data seeding away, but not only that have data that make sense for testing
<?php
use Phinx\Seed\AbstractSeed;
class PeopleSeeder extends AbstractSeed
{
/**
* Run Method.
*
* Write your database seeder using this method.
*
* More information on writing seeders is available here:
* http://docs.phinx.org/en/latest/seeding.html
*/
public function run()
{
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
$data = [];
for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
//id, brother, firstname, lastname, created, modified, active
$gender = $faker->randomElement(['male', 'female']);
$data[] = [
'active' => 1,
'brother' => $gender === 'male' ? 1 : 0,
'firstname' => $faker->firstName($gender),
'lastname' => $faker->lastName,
'created' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
'modified' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')
];
}
// truncate people and relationships first
$people = $this->table('people');
$people_privileges = $this->table('people_privileges');
$people_privileges->truncate();
$people->truncate();
$people->insert($data)->save();
}
}
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