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lord/mother
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An Object Mother for PHP, providing nested object generation with attributes and extendable generators.

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Mother
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[](#mother)

Mother is an Object Mother for PHP, providing nested object generation with minimal configuration, attributes and extendable generators.

It is primarily intended for testing, but can also be used during early development to return realistic data to the frontend before features are fully implemented.

### Installation

[](#installation)

Installation via Composer - typically as a dev dependency, but can also be used in production for feature flagged prototyping if desired.

```
composer require lord/mother --dev
```

### Basic usage

[](#basic-usage)

Objects can be generated a couple of ways:

```