README

A powerful and flexible Laravel package for seeding realistic and structured data into your database. Supports weighted values, sequential IDs, custom SQL queries, localized fake data, and much more.

🚀 Features

• 📦 Easy integration with Laravel seeders
• 🔢 Field-based seeding with custom logic
• ⚖️ Weighted value selection
• 🔁 Sequential number generation
• 🧪 Faker-powered fake data (localized)
• 🧠 Custom SQL-based value population
• 🗂️ Supports fixed values, random numbers, dates, IBANs, and more
• 📊 Ideal for seeding time series or analytical data
• ✅ Fully PHPDoc documented
• 🤯 And much more...

📚 Documentation

Full documentation available here:
https://palma140.github.io/DBContextSeeder/docs/intro

📦 Installation

Install via Composer:

composer require ipleiria/dbcontextseeder

👥 Authors

• 👨‍🏫 Guiding Teacher — Marco Monteiro (@mmonteiro)
• 👨‍💻 Developer — Álvaro Alves (@alvaroalves10)
• 👨‍💻 Developer — Luís Palma (@palma140)

🎓 Academic Context

This package was developed as part of the final project for the Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
If you find a bug or want to add a new feature, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

You are free to use, modify, and distribute this software under the terms of the GPL-3.0. If you distribute a modified version, it must also be licensed under the same terms and include credit to the original authors.