README

A drop-in replacement for eklundkristoffer/seedster with full Laravel 13 support.

Seedster provides an Artisan command to generate database seeders from existing database records, making it easy to capture the current state of your database as seed files.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• License

Features

• Generate seeders from existing database records
• Support for all Laravel-supported database drivers
• Configurable table selection and filtering
• Drop-in replacement for eklundkristoffer/seedster
• Full compatibility with Laravel 13

Installation

composer require jeremykenedy/laravel-seedster

The service provider is auto-discovered. No manual registration needed.

Publish Configuration

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=seedster-config

Usage

Generate a Seeder

# Generate a seeder for a specific table
php artisan seedster:generate users

# Generate seeders for all tables
php artisan seedster:generate --all

# Specify output path
php artisan seedster:generate users --path=database/seeders

Options

Configuration

After publishing the config file, you can customize settings in config/seedster.php:

• path - Default output path for generated seeders
• chunk_size - Default chunk size for insert statements
• excluded_tables - Tables to skip when using --all

Testing

composer test

License

The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE for more information.

Author

• Jeremy Kenedy