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miksir/yii2-db-faker
====================

Fill your database table with fake data

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This Yii2 command can fill your database with fake data. Useful if you need lot of fake data, 1 mil rows and more.

You can switch between different data generators (or write your own) and different database connectors.

Props:

- you can write own sources of fake data (proxy to fzaninotto/Faker included)
- different connectors to datbase for save data. ActiveRecord - slow but with model logic, YiiDAO - fast batch insert, TODO: postgresql COPY connector.

Generators included:

- FakeGenerator: this is proxy to [`Faker`](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker)and use same logic, paths and templates as [`yii2-faker`](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-faker) . Read yii2-faker documentation about creating fixtures template file

Database connectors (called here as dbproviders):

- Csv: simple csv writer
- ActiveRecord: create model, fill with data and call ->save()
- YiiDAO: insert data using sql (via Yii's PDO), can insert multiple rows per one insert

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

[](#installation)

Use composer :)

```
composer require miksir/yii2-db-faker

```

You should configure your application as follows (usually in console.php; and you can use any alias, not only "faker"):

```
'controllerMap' => [
 'faker' => [
     'class' => 'MiksIr\Yii2DbFaker\FakerController',
 ],
],
```

Call help for current generator and dbprovider

```
yii faker/help

```

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

```
yii faker/generate --count=1000000 --dbprovider=YiiDAO generator_template=users dbprovider_table=users dbprovider_truncate=1

```

Truncate table users and create about 1 million rows using template from @tests/unit/templates/fixtures/users.php

###  Health Score

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Maintenance10

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Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

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Total

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Last Release

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