Tag: factory

Populate database table with Laravel Faker from pre-populated table

I want to populate a table with listings of car offers with dummy data. The specific is that I want the make and model to be from a table already created in the database. Also the listing’s title to …

How does a Laravel factory gets the $factory variable defined?

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A new factory in laravel looks like this; The variabele $factory does’nt get defined in this file. How and where does this variabele get defined? A dd($factory) results as expected in an IlluminateDatabaseEloquentFactory object Answer The variable $factory is not defined in the file itself. Only when this file is processed by Laravel, by including it during the loading process,