Getting a Faker instance in Laravel’s tinker environment
I sometimes find that it would be useful to use artisan tinker to play with the sorts of data that Faker will generate in a Laravel factory. Unfortunately I don’t do it often enough to always remember the correct way to do it, since the obvious new Faker\Generator doesn’t work. So for future reference, what you need is:
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>>> $faker = Faker\Factory::create(); |