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Description

iseed is a Laravel package that provides a method to generate a new seed file based on data from the existing database table.

This project was created by The EST Group and PHPHub.

Screenshots

Run the demo

You can refer to this documentation to know how to run this demo.

Table of contents

1. Installation;
2. Basic Usage;
3. Recommend Usage;
4. More Usage.

Installation

1). Require this package in your composer.json and update composer. This will download the package

composer require orangehill/iseed

2). After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php

'providers' => [
	...
	Orangehill\Iseed\IseedServiceProvider::class,
],

Done. Very simple, isn't it? 🍻🍻🍻

Basic Usage

Export the specified tables

Just run this command:

php artisan iseed users

It will be generate UsersTableSeeder.php file.

You can also generate multiple seeder files at the same time, like:

php artisan iseed users,topics

it will be generate UsersTableSeeder.php and TopicsTableSeeder.php file.

Overwrite existing seeds -- force

Optional parameter which is used to automatically overwrite any existing seeds for desired tables.

php artisan iseed users --force

It will overwrite UsersTableSeeder.php file.

The UsersTableSeeder.php content is:

Specifies the DB -- database

Optional parameter which specifies the DB connection name:

php artisan iseed users --database=mysql2

Recommend Usage

I advise you to use the package pack this way.

1. Import production database into a developer's computer;
2. The developer run php artisan iseed ... to generate the seeder files;
3. Submit all seeder files to the version management, then others can download the seeder files.

More Usage

You can refer to the documentation to learn more about this package.

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