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null/realisticfaker
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Creates realistic data based on FAKER-library

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Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

### Installation

[](#installation)

(Realistic)Faker requires PHP >= 7.1.

```
composer require null/realisticfaker
```

### Try Out

[](#try-out)

To start with an example, add a simple php-file with the contents of:

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->gender .' | ' .  $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' .  $faker->email;
```

### Difference to [faker](https://fakerphp.github.io).

[](#difference-to-faker)

Faker is cool. Like you can

```
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->firstName . ' | ' .  $faker->jobTitle;
```

which will give you

```
 Jayda | Receptionist and Information Clerk
 Daphney | Woodworker
 Hope | Refractory Materials Repairer

```

and so on

But what isn't cool is if you write

```
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' .  $faker->email;
```

it will give you

```
 Randy DuBuque | mcorkery@gmail.com
 Emelia Thompson | halvorson.lura@mertz.info

```

That's how faker works (it uses `__get()` magic), but not what we expected. Here RealisticFaker jumps in: Based on fakerphp/faker this library gives you the possibility to create (more) realistic fakeprofiles in which e.g. the email-adress matches the person's name

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->gender .' | ' .  $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' .  $faker->email;
```

1st call:

```
 male | Dock Stiedemann | dock.stiedemann@damore.com

```

2nd call:

```
 female | Citlalli Cole | citlalli45@swift.net

```

... and so on

You can also add an identifier - so the "random" person will be the same on each call (what you would probably want for longer tests using personas). So basically the functionality of "seeding" ($faker->seed($unique)) is included in the constructor.

```
$identifier = "admin";
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create($identifier);
echo $faker->gender .' | ' .  $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' .  $faker->email;
```

this will always give you:

```
 male | Geovanni Mohr | geovanni.mohr@yahoo.com

```

of course you can use all the features of the original Faker

```
echo $faker->jobTitle
echo $faker->address
echo $faker->bankAccountNumber
$faker->addProvider(...);
```

and so on ...

### Internationalization

[](#internationalization)

You can use all the original translations of faker. Only the constructor is different:

```
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create("admin", "de_DE");
echo $faker->gender .' | ' .  $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' .  $faker->email;
```

License
-------

[](#license)

RealisticFaker is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

###  Health Score

16

—

LowBetter than 5% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity21

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

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