Laravel – Create Dummy Data using tinker factory

database/factories/. In this folder you can add your different factory for different model.

So here you can see how to generate dummy users by following command because for User Model they provide default factory.

Generate Dummy Users:

php artisan tinker
factory(AppUser::class, 500)->create();

After Run Above command, you will get 500 records on your users table. So it’s very simple. you can also create thousands of records in a seconds. So it’s pretty easy.

Create Dummy Records For Product:

As you see above command for user, But you can not do same for other model. If you want to do this then you have to add factory for that model. So i am going to give you full example of factory from scratch.

I have Product model with products table. Now we want to add dummy records for Product model. So we have to add factory like as bellow :

database/factories/UserFactory.php

<?php

use FakerGenerator as Faker;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Model Factories
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This directory should contain each of the model factory definitions for
| your application. Factories provide a convenient way to generate new
| model instances for testing / seeding your application's database.
|
*/

$factory->define(AppUser::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    static $password;
    return [
        'name' => $faker->name,
        'email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
        'password' => $password ?: $password = bcrypt('secret'),
        'remember_token' => str_random(10),
    ];
});

$factory->define(AppPost::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        'title' => $faker->name,
        'body' => $faker->text,
    ];
});

I simply add Product factor for two fields.

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
factory(AppProduct::class, 500)->create();

So i hope you created your 500 dummy records on products table.

I hope it can help you…