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storefront/faker-minimal
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Minimal Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you. It's a fork of the original Faker, but reduced in size to only include what we need.

v1.9.3(4y ago)015MITPHPPHP ^7.0 || ^8.0

Since Oct 13Pushed 4y agoCompare

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Minimal Faker - A fork of the original Faker, but reduced in size to only what we need
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[](#minimal-faker---a-fork-of-the-original-faker-but-reduced-in-size-to-only-what-we-need)

See the original, archived repo at:

- Our version only includes data for de\_DE, en\_GB, en\_US, fr\_FR, fr\_BE, nl\_BE and nl\_NL, the countries we work for mostly.
- Other locales have been removed.
- ORM libraries have been removed.
- PHP support for 5.x was dropped.

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)
    - [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)
- [Localization](#localization)
- [Seeding the Generator](#seeding-the-generator)
- [Faker Internals: Understanding Providers](#faker-internals-understanding-providers)
- [Real Life Usage](#real-life-usage)
- [Language specific formatters](#language-specific-formatters)
- [Third-Party Libraries Extending/Based On Faker](#third-party-libraries-extendingbased-on-faker)
- [License](#license)

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require storefront/faker-minimal
```

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

[](#basic-usage)

### Autoloading

[](#autoloading)

Faker supports both `PSR-0` as `PSR-4` autoloaders.

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