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A flexible and extensible PHP library for automatically populating object models with dummy data, built on top of seed-faker.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• Composer

Installation

composer require alexeyyashin/model-faker

Usage

See the examples/demo.php file for a complete demonstration:

use AlexeyYashin\ModelFaker\ModelFaker;
use DemoModel;

$faker = new ModelFaker();

// Configure rules (optional)
$faker
    ->rulePropertyName('name', fn() => 'John Doe')
    ->ruleMethodName('setCreatedAt', fn() => new \DateTime())
    ->ruleAcceptType(\DateTime::class, fn() => new \DateTime());

$model = new DemoModel();
$faker->fillAll($model);

var_dump($model);

API Reference

• ruleAcceptType(string $type, callable $rule): static — Register a generator for parameter types.
• ruleMethodName(string $method, callable $rule): static — Register a generator for specific setter methods.
• rulePropertyName(string $property, callable $rule): static — Register a generator for specific properties.
• fillExplicitly(object $model, bool $existing = true): int — Fill explicitly named fields and setters.
• fillSetters(object $model): int — Fill all public setters based on parameter types.
• fillProperties(object $model): int — Fill all public properties based on type declarations.
• fillAll(object $model): int — Fill both public properties and methods based on type declarations and parameter types.