I am unable Model Factory in Laravel Tinker.
//ItemFactory.php
class ItemFactory extends Factory
{
/**
* The name of the factory's corresponding model.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $model = Item::class;
/**
* Define the model's default state.
*
* @return array
*/
public function definition()
{
return [
'name' => $this->faker->name,
'slug' => $this->faker->slug(5, true),
'code' => $this->faker->words(5, true),
'description' => $this->faker->sentence,
'price' => $this->faker->randomNumber(1000, 10000),
'size' => $this->faker->randomElement(['Small', 'Medium', 'Large',]),
];
}
}
Inside Tinker
>>> factory(App\Item::class)->create();
It throws me an error:
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function factory() in Psy Shell code on line 1
For Laravel 8 With the artisan command, you no longer need to specify the model. By automatically including the factory trait in the model, Laravel automatically makes the factory methods available to the corresponding model. It is then sufficient to call the model in the seeder or in the tests.
Laravel Tinker allows you to interact with a database without creating the routes. Laravel tinker is used with a php artisan to create the objects or modify the data. The php artisan is a command-line interface that is available with a Laravel. Tinker is a command tool that works with a php artisan.
After going through the documentation of Model Factory, there were major changes in Laravel 8 version.
For using Model Factory anywhere inside Laravel 8:
Inside Model, we need to import the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory
trait
New command to implement the factory
App\Item::factory()->create();
In laravel 8 the default route namespace was removed.
Try to change command
factory(App\Item::class)->create();
To
\App\Models\Item::factory()->create();
\App\Models\Item::factory(10)->create(); \\If you want to create specify number of record then
In Laravel 8.x release notes:
Eloquent model factories have been entirely re-written as class based factories and improved to have first-class relationship support.
Global factory()
function is removed as of Laravel 8. Instead, you should now use model factory classes.
php artisan make:factory ItemFactory --model=Item
Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory
trait is imported in your model:use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Item extends Model
{
use HasFactory;
// ...
}
$item = Item::factory()->make(); // Create a single App\Models\Item instance
// or
$items = Item::factory()->count(3)->make(); // Create three App\Models\Item instances
Use create
method to persist them to the database:
$item = Item::factory()->create(); // Create a single App\Models\Item instance and persist to the database
// or
$items = Item::factory()->count(3)->create(); // Create three App\Models\Item instances and persist to the database
Being said that, if you still want to provide support for the previous generation of model factories within Laravel 8.x, you can use laravel/legacy-factories package.
In Laravel 8 I couldn't get the factory method to work just calling it straight out but I was able to get it to work by calling it like a static method on the Item class:
Terminal:
Item::factory()->create();
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