laravel factory seeder code example

Example 1: laravel run seed

#All of them
php artisan db:seed
#One class
php artisan db:seed --class=UserSeeder

Example 2: laravel database seeder

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        DB::table('users')->insert([
            'name' => Str::random(10),
            'email' => Str::random(10).'@gmail.com',
            'password' => Hash::make('password'),
        ]);
    }
}

Example 3: add factory data laravel

For Laravel version 7.* and less
factory(App\User::class, 3)->make();

Use create method to persist them to the database:
factory(App\User::class, 3)->create();

Example 4: laravel 8 seeding

use App\Models\User;

/**
 * Run the database seeders.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function run()
{
    User::factory()
            ->times(50)
            ->hasPosts(1)
            ->create();
}