Laravel Seeders and Factories

Here, i have come with some code to create laravel seeders and factories. For inserting data in our database for testing purpose.

Create Model Admin

php artisan make:model Admin -m

Now, open the admin migration file in database directory and table columns.

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateAdminsTable extends Migration
{

    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create( 'admins', function (Blueprint $table)
        {
            $table->increments( 'id' );
            $table->string( 'name' );
            $table->string( 'surname' );
            $table->string( 'email' );
            $table->string( 'password' );
            $table->timestamps();
        } );
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists( 'admins' );
    }

}

To create table run

php artisan migrate

Create Factory in Laravel to create random number of records for testing. We will create factory AdminFactory.

php artisan make:factory AdminFactory

Inside the definition method set your database table columns.

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;

use App\Models\Admin;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class AdminFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * The name of the factory's corresponding model.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $model = Admin::class;

    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'name' => $this->faker->name,
            'surname' => $this->faker->name,
            'email' => $this->faker->unique()->safeEmail,
            'password' => bcrypt('123456'), // password
        ];
    }
}

Now, create seeder to run factory or database queries.

php artisan make:seeder AdminSeeder

Inside run method apply factory on Admin model.

namespace Database\Seeders;

use App\Models\Admin;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class AdminsSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        Admin::factory()
            ->count(50)
            ->create([
                'surname' => 'Kumar',
            ]);
    }
}

Now run the seeder class

php artisan db:seed --class=AdminSeeder

This will create 50 random records in table admins

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