Make Laravel factory file with the column names of a table in a database.

composer require --dev aiiro/laravel-factory-generator

If you are using Laravel 5.5 or higher, the package will be automatically registered.

Optionally, you can publish the config file by running this command.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Aiiro\Factory\FactoryGeneratorServiceProvider"

And then, you can find config\factory-generator.php.

<?php

return [
    
    /**
     * Set the namespace of the model.
     */
    'namespace' => [
        'model' => 'App',
    ],

    /**
     * List of the columns that will not appear in the factory.
     */
    'ignored_columns' => [
        'id',
    ],
];

After installing and Configuration, you can generate the factory file by running the following command.

Please pass the table name to generate:factory command as the argument.

php artisan generate:factory some_samples

NOTE This command connects to the database to retrieve the columns from table, so make sure that the database is configured.

Use --all option without table name, to generate factories of all tables in database.

If a factory of table exists, it will be skipped and continue to generate factories of other tables.

php artisan generate:factory  --all

clear cache with below command. php artisan config:clear

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