Seeder can create some fake data in table, it’s useful.

  • Create seeder
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php artisan make:seeder ArticleSeeder

After that a file named ArticleSeeder.php would be created under database/seeds. Change function run as follow:

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public function run()
{
    DB::table('articles')->delete();

    for ($i=0; $i < 10; $i++) {
        \App\Article::create([
            'title'   => 'Title '.$i,
            'body'    => 'Body '.$i,
            'user_id' => 1,
        ]);
    }
}
  • Register seeder

Then we need register ArticleSeeder in project. Modify function run in file database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php as follow:

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public function run()
{
    $this->call(ArticleSeeder::class);
}
  • Excute seed and create fake data

Excuste seed with command 

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php artisan db:seed

. You can get the fake data.