Laravel 4 db seed specific seeder file

Question

I have an existing user table with information seeded via db:seed from UserSeeder.php. Now, I am adding new product table and want to seed information into product table. How can I prevent Laravel from seeding the UserSeeder into the database, but only the new ProductSeeder being seeded?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can call individual seed classes by their class name. From the docs.

By default, the db:seed command runs the DatabaseSeeder class, which may be used to call other seed classes. However, you may use the --class option to specify a specific seeder class to run individually:

php artisan db:seed --class=ProductTableSeeder 

In the example above, the ProductTableSeeder class should exist in database/seeds.

Answer 2

Here's a working example with the class full namespace:

Should use double backslashes \\.

Class name is DefaultBannersSeeder.

php artisan db:seed --class=App\\Containers\\Banners\\Data\\Seeders\\DefaultBannersSeeder