README

this package is useful for seeding fake data between two Models with Many-To-Many relationship by some function

Installation

composer require zbm/m2m-seeding

Usage

Basic usage

use m2m\seeding\M2MSeeding;


M2MSeeding::make(FirstModel::class, SecondModel::class, 'relation')
    ->run();

• first thing call the static function make() with the first and second models you need with the name of relation from first model to second model
• then call run() to seeding the fake data

Factory the models

if you want to seed the models using factories you can call withFactory() function

use m2m\seeding\M2MSeeding;

M2MSeeding::make(FirstModel::class, SecondModel::class, 'relation')
    ->withFactory(10, 10)
    ->run();

the first parameter is the count of factories in the first model and the second parameter is for second one

Detect number of relations

you can use this functions to determine number of relations between the models

->minRelation(10)

determine the minimum number of relations (the default value is 0).

->maxRelation(10)

determine the maximum number of relations (the default value is 3).

->rangeRelation(2, 5)

determine the minimum and maximum number of relations.

Seed the pivot

if the pivot have some data you can also seed it by using withPivot() function

->withPivot(function (){
    return [
        'first_column'  => rand(1, 10),
        'second_column' => fake()->word,
        'third_column'  => true,
    ];
})

this function accept callback function returned array of keys (the column name) and values (the value of column)

Example

First Model

class Post extends Model{
    
    public function reactions(){
        return $this->belongsToMany(User::class, 'reactions');
    }
}

Second Model

class User extends Model{
    
}

reactions table

• id
• user_id
• post_id
• reaction_type

Seeding

use m2m\seeding\M2MSeeding;

M2MSeeding::make(Post::class, User::class, 'reactions')
    ->withFactory(20, 100)
    ->rangeRelation(50, 80)
    ->withPivot(function (){
        return [
            'reaction_type' => rand(1, 6)
        ];
    })
    ->run();

this lines will create 20 Post and 100 User and each Post has between 50 and 80 reactions and each reaction has type as integer between 1 and 6