README

A data factory helper class for mocking data. This is inspired by Laravel's model factories, the difference being that data factories are not tied to a model. Data factories are great for mocking api responses, requests or other data not persisted to a database. Data Factories are not dependent on Laravel, so you can use this package anywhere.

Installing

    composer require incraigulous/data-factories

Adding a data factories folder

Example factory file

<?php
use Faker\Generator as Faker;

$factory->define('test-factory', function(Faker $faker) {

    $email = $faker->email;

    return [
        'name' => $faker->name,
        'email' => $email,
        'email_confirmation' => $email,
        'phone' => $faker->phoneNumber,
        'message' => $faker->paragraph(),
    ];
});

Bootstrapping

You can register your factories where your tests are bootstrapped. Like in your phpunit TestCase SetUp method for example. If you put all your factory files in your /tests/factories folder , you might do it like this:

  protected function setUp() {
     parent::setUp();
     DataFactory::registerPath(__DIR__.'/factories/*.php');
   }

Using Factories

You can return a single factory like this:

 $person = DataFactory::make('person');

or an array of factories like this:

 $people = DataFactory::make('person', 10);