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Use Phactory inside Laravel

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Phactory Laravel
================

[](#phactory-laravel)

With Phactory Laravel you'll be able to use [Phactory](http://phactory.org/) with Laravel 5.

If you don't know what `Phactory` is:

```
Phactory is an alternative to using database fixtures in your PHP unit tests. Instead of maintaining a separate XML file of data, you define a blueprint for each table and then create as many different objects as you need in your PHP code.

```

`Phactory Laravel` will access the database based on your `Laravel` config, simple as that.

Be aware that you must [specify a testing database](https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/testing/how-to-specify-a-testing-database-in-laravel-5), otherwise `Phactory Laravel` will insert data in your development database.

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

[](#installation)

First you need to add this to your `composer.json` requires:

```
	"talyssonoc/phactory-laravel": "dev-master"
```

Then set the `minimum-stability` of your dependencies to `dev`, adding this to your `composer.json`:

```
	"minimum-stability": "dev"
```

Then run:

```
	$ composer install
```

After that you should add this to your service providers (at `config/app.php`):

```
	'PhactoryLaravel\PhactoryServiceProvider'
```

And that to your aliases (at the same file):

```
	'Phactory'	=> 'PhactoryLaravel\\Phactory'
```

After that, `Phactory` facade will be available for you to use.

Creating a factory
------------------

[](#creating-a-factory)

Yours factories must be inside the folder `app/Factories`, and you should use the API provided by `Phactory`. The content of each file must be something like this:

```