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gourmet/muffin
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FactoryMuffin support for CakePHP 3

v0.1.1(11y ago)28.5k[1 issues](https://github.com/gourmet/muffin/issues)MITPHP

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Muffin
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[](#muffin)

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[FactoryMuffin](https://github.com/thephpleague/factory-muffin) for [CakePHP 3](https://cakephp.org).

About
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[](#about)

Out of the box FactoryMuffin wraps [Faker](/fzaninotto/faker) methods to generate dummy data for your entities.

I originally started by releasing [gourmet/faker](http://github.com/gourmet/faker), which worked great for inserting dummy data to use in demos and even in tests. However, as time went by, I realized that in many cases, I was just repeating myself. That's when I remembered [@savant](http://github.com/savant) mentioning [FactoryMuffin](https://github.com/thephpleague/factory-muffin) to me a while back and after a quick look, it became obvious this was exactly what I needed.

I still use the [Faker](http://github.com/gourmet/faker) plugin, because in some cases just absracting everything using factories ends up being even more work. So, if you need granularity when creating dummy data, try it; but in most cases, stick to this one.

Usage
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[](#usage)

```
composer require --dev gourmet/muffin:~0.1

```

No need to load it in `bootstrap.php`.

Example
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[](#example)

Assuming you have a `Posts` model (table, entity and fixture), to create fake data, you'll first need to define the factory in `tests/Factory/PostFactory`:

```