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mehlah/li3\_populator
=====================

Populate a database with mass insertion

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Lithium Populator
=================

[](#lithium-populator)

`li3_populator` library let you generate fake data for your Lithium models and save them in the database. It provides a Lithium's ORM/ODM adapter to [Faker](http://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker).

Usage Example
-------------

[](#usage-example)

Here is an example showing how to populate 50 `People` data objects (instances of `lithium\data\entity\Record` or `lithium\data\entity\Document`), and save the records or documents in the database.

```
use faker\Factory;
use li3_populator\extensions\adapter\ORM\Lithium\Populator;

$generator = Factory::create();
$populator = new Populator($generator);
$populator->addEntity('People', 50);
$people_ids = $populator->execute();
```

The populator will guess the relevant data for each field based on your models schema definitions.

For a more advanced usage, take a look to [Faker](http://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker) docs.

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

[](#installation)

This library is installable via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/) as [mehlah/li3\_populator](https://packagist.org/packages/mehlah/li3_populator).

Don't forget to add the library to your application in `config/bootstrap/libraries.php`

```
Libraries::add('li3_populator');

```

###  Health Score

23

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LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 87.5% of commits — single point of failure

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### Community

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