Laravel Seeding: Writing Seeders

Php artisan make:seeder UsersTableSeeder
<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        DB::table('users')->insert([
            'name' => str_random(10),
            'email' => str_random(10).'@gmail.com',
            'password' => bcrypt('secret'),
        ]);
    }
}

Using Model Factories

To conveniently generate large amounts of database records.

/**
 * Run the database seeds.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function run()
{
    factory(App\User::class, 50)->create()->each(function ($u) {
        $u->posts()->save(factory(App\Post::class)->make());
    });
}

Calling Additional Seeders

/**
 * Run the database seeds.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function run()
{
    $this->call([
        UsersTableSeeder::class,
        PostsTableSeeder::class,
        CommentsTableSeeder::class,
    ]);
}

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