I am new to Yii framework. I want to seed my database like it can be done in Laravel framework using Faker. I tried this http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/59655-how-to-seed-yii2-database/ but it does not provide much details. I would really appreciate if someone can help me out with the steps in details.
Creating console command and using Faker inside the console command controller to seed the database worked for me.
Following is the SeedController.php
file which I created under commands folder:
// commands/SeedController.php
namespace app\commands;
use yii\console\Controller;
use app\models\Users;
use app\models\Profile;
class SeedController extends Controller
{
public function actionIndex()
{
$faker = \Faker\Factory::create();
$user = new Users();
$profile = new Profile();
for ( $i = 1; $i <= 20; $i++ )
{
$user->setIsNewRecord(true);
$user->user_id = null;
$user->username = $faker->username;
$user->password = '123456';
if ( $user->save() )
{
$profile->setIsNewRecord(true);
$profile->user_id = null;
$profile->user_id = $user->user_id;
$profile->email = $faker->email;
$profile->first_name = $faker->firstName;
$profile->last_name = $faker->lastName;
$profile->save();
}
}
}
}
And used yii seed
command to run the controller.