Laravel Seed Generator

Artisan command for Laravel that will create Seeder files for the current data in the DB using a simple visual interface

Installation

1. Add ylsalame/seedgenerator to composer.json

composer require ylsalame/laravelseedgenerator

or

"require": {
	"ylsalame/laravelseedgenerator": "^0.5"
}

2. Update Composer from the CLI:

composer update

Usage (Artisan)

php artisan seedgenerator

Seed Generator is a scripted tool with a visual interface. This means that you will not have any action executed before you visual confirm and ackowledge what is going to be done. Here is an example of what the inface looks like:

Command options/flags

connection

[optional] The name of the connection to be used. 
[default] fetched from Config::database.default
If no connection is passed and no conneciton is configured in the Laravel config the script will raise an exception.

skipped_tables

[optional] A list of tables for the script to skip delimited by commas
[default] {empty}

dont_overwrite

[optional] Boolean flag that will make the script avoid overwritting exiting files
[default] false

limit_records

[optional] The amount of records to limit when generating the seeder file for a table. If ommited, all records will be fetched and added to the seeder file
[default] {empty}

Output

Table seeder files

Each table detected in the schema will have its own seeder file generated. This seeder file will contain the entire data the table contains at the time.

Path: \database\seeds
Naming convention: {table_name}Seeder.php

Database seeder file

The database seeder file will contain the trigger for all the table seeder files generated. Skipped table will not be included in this file.

Path: \database\seeds
Naming convention: It will be saved with the name DatabaseSeeder.php to maintain the Laravel standard.