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bobthecow/population
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A simpler way to populate your Doctrine 2 databases

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Population
==========

[](#population)

A simpler way to populate your Doctrine 2 databases.

Inspired by [Populator](https://github.com/ryanb/populator) for ActiveRecord.

Usage
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[](#usage)

You really should use this library with [Faker](https://github.com/bobthecow/Faker). You'll see why in a second.

The easiest way to use Population is to extend `\Population\DataFixture`. It's a valid base class for both ORM and ODM data fixtures:

```