Faker VS PsySH

Faker is a PHP project that allows you to generate data for various testing scenarios. It excels in multilingual support, capable of generating fake data in multiple languages and diverse formats. This feature allows testing multilingual applications and enriching databases with authentic-looking test data.

I've worked with PHP's Faker library and the seeder included with Laravel. I had been able to populate the database with fake data but now I'm working with Django.

Now let's generate fake data for our user's table using the Laravel package, Faker.

more infos on the documentation : https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

You can use the Faker library in your user factory file.

To learn elasticsearch, you need lots of data to make queries as you want. I searched a few places to get a valid dump. But I couldn't find any dump that I can go with. Also what I found online, I am not familiar with the types of data. So, I thought to make a generator of my own. I have already used Artisan Console and fzaninotto/Faker, that's why I thought to make a generator that anyone can use with their terminal and generate the dump the way they wish.

Model factories in Laravel allow you to generate dummy/fake data using the Faker PHP library. The Faker library allows generating random data by specifying various attributes. With factories you define fake data to be generated for each attribute/column of your model. This not only saves you time of manually inserting database records, but enables you to save thousands of records in your database within seconds.

The original has been archived due to the amount of effort it took to update and has been forked into https://github.com/FakerPHP/Faker/, which is what Laravel now uses.

👉 https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

psysh is an interactive shell that enables developers to explore and experiment with PHP code without the need to write the source code for an entire application. It provides a simple and user-friendly shell interface where you can enter PHP code and instantly observe the results. Also, psysh is a configurable tool equipped with various plugins and modules. Therefore, you can customize it the way you want.

Tinker is a REPL built over psysh which is a general-purpose REPL for PHP. Since a Laravel application is not plain PHP and has states, databases, caches, events, and many more complex resources specific to the framework, it's not possible to interact with the application the way one would expect just using psysh.

Why choose when you can have both in one https://psysh.org/ lol... I testdrove it once, but not convinced (I think the "merged" 2-languages-in-1 is pretty funny but maybe it works for some people).

Would love to see https://psysh.org incorporated in core.

It does! Or rather it used to (and still does for some things) but looks like it broke for stdout and return value dumping a couple of years ago.

PsySH offers a dev console and interactive debugger for PHP projects. In effect, this repo creates a REPL platform for PHP developers.

psysh is a killer tool in situations like this.

And detail more on executing it: https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh/wiki/Usage

Yes, check out psysh https://psysh.org