karakhanyans/seeder

Export your database into Seeds

Database Seeder

Seeder creates an artisan command that lets you quickly create seeds from your existing database., _(*1)

Install

Via Composer, _(*2)

composer require karakhanyans/seeder

In your app/config/app.php file, add the following to the providers array:, _(*3)

 Karakhanyans\Seeder\SeederServiceProvider::class,

Usage

Once installed, you should see generate:seed as one of the artisan commands when you run:, _(*4)

php artisan list

For example:, _(*5)

php artisan generate:seed

This would create seed files in your database/seeds directory with a php files, which would contain the following stub:, _(*6)

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class UserSeed extends Seeder
{

    /**
    * Run the database seeds.
    *
    * @return void
    */

     protected $users;

     public function setUsers(){
        $this->users = //serialized data;
     }

     public function run(){
         $this->setUsers();
         foreach(unserialize($this->users) as $item){
             try{ 
                \App\User::create((array)$item);
            }catch (\Exception $e){
                \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log::info('Duplicate entry for user: '.$item['id']);
             }
         }
     }

}

In your database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php file, add the following to the run() action to call all new seeds:, _(*7)

$this->call(GlobalSeeder::class);

If your models in specific folder you should use {folder} argument to generate your Seeds from that folder., _(*8)

 php artisan generate:seed Models

If you want to get all your models recursively you can use the following command with -r flag:, _(*9)

php artisan generate:seed Models -r

Note

For Users table please remove $hidden array to make sure that Seeder will contain all database fields., _(*10)

protected $hidden = ['password', 'remember_token'];

Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently., _(*11)

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CONDUCT for details., _(*12)

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email karakhanyansa@gmail.com., _(*13)

Credits

• Sergey Karakhanyan

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information., _(*14)