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mattsmithdev/faker-small-english
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Smaller, English-only (sorry) version of François Zaninotto's Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you.

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Faker Small English
===================

[](#faker-small-english)

Faker Small English is a PHP library that generates fake data for you. Whether you need to bootstrap your database, create good-looking XML documents, fill-in your persistence to stress test it, or anonymize data taken from a production service, this is for you.

Faker Small English is a Smaller, English-only (sorry) version of François Zaninotto's fantastic [Faker](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker) package - which has been sunsetted (abandoned) due to the environmental impact of its larger (megabytes) size, trying to code for so many different languages and locales. Please RESPECT this and do NOT download/install the original package.

Faker requires PHP >= 5.3.3.

**The original Faker is archived**. Read the reasons behind this decision here:

I (Matt Smith) have created this small version of Faker to be able to continue to encourage my students in populating their projects with plausible fake data, without the environmental impact of a large codebase.

I offer no warranty for general use - but it's open source, and if you think it would be useful, go ahead and use it :-)

I've copied and edited this README from the orinal - and so you may find useful info (e..g CLI tools, ORM providers etc.) in the docs for the original project on Gituhub - but **please** do NOT download/install the original package, since that would mean many megabytes and its associated environmental impact. Feel free to post an issue if there is some issue with my fork, and it's something you think my students need fixed for their college PHP web application development.

Table of Contents
=================

[](#table-of-contents)

- [Installation](#installation)
- [Basic Usage](#basic-usage)
- [Formatters](#formatters)
    - [Base](#fakerproviderbase)
    - [Lorem Ipsum Text](#fakerproviderlorem)
    - [Person](#fakerprovideren_usperson)
    - [Address](#fakerprovideren_usaddress)
    - [Phone Number](#fakerprovideren_usphonenumber)
    - [Company](#fakerprovideren_uscompany)
    - [Real Text](#fakerprovideren_ustext)
    - [Date and Time](#fakerproviderdatetime)
    - [Internet](#fakerproviderinternet)
    - [User Agent](#fakerprovideruseragent)
    - [Payment](#fakerproviderpayment)
    - [Color](#fakerprovidercolor)
    - [File](#fakerproviderfile)
    - [Image](#fakerproviderimage)
    - [Uuid](#fakerprovideruuid)
    - [Barcode](#fakerproviderbarcode)
    - [Miscellaneous](#fakerprovidermiscellaneous)
    - [Biased](#fakerproviderbiased)
    - [Html Lorem](#fakerproviderhtmllorem)
- [Modifiers](#modifiers)
- [License](#license)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require mattsmithdev/faker-small-english
```

Basic Usage
-----------

[](#basic-usage)

### Autoloading

[](#autoloading)

Faker Small English suppers `PSR-4` autoloaders.

```