Run Laravel 5 seeder programmatically instead of from CLI

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Is there a way to run the Laravel 5 seeder from within PHP rather than from the command line. The hosting I am using doesn't allow me to use the command line. Just to confirm I want to do the equivalent of this but in my app code:

php artisan db:seed

Bogdan · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-01T22:39:19.817

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You can use the following method:

Artisan::call('db:seed');

To get the output of the last run command, you can use:

Artisan::output();

edited Mar 01 '15 at 22:39

answered Mar 01 '15 at 22:23

Bogdan

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Related: How do you call this for a specific class? For example, if you want to call the equivalent of `php artisan db:seed --class=User`? I see that you pass an array to the `Artisan::call()` function, but I get an invalid argument exception when I use `Artisan::call('db:seed', ['class'=>'Users'])` saying "The 'class' argument does not exist." – Kirkland Aug 12 '15 at 18:55
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Artisan::call('command:name', array('argument' => 'foo', '--option' => 'bar')); See https://laravel.com/docs/4.2/commands#calling-other-commands – Cameron Jun 27 '16 at 04:13
The answer below is a much better option – Thomas Nov 06 '17 at 13:20
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@Kirkland, If you want to run specific seeder Class, try `Artisan::call('db:seed', ['--class' => 'YourSeederClass']);` – Sven Jan 15 '20 at 09:34

score 34 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '15 at 11:06

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You can also call directly the Seeder class if needed. Just make sure you did a composer dump-autoload if you created your seeder manually.

From there code is very straightforward :

$seeder = new YourSeederClass();
$seeder->run();

answered Dec 02 '15 at 11:06

elfif

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To do it in 1 line: (new MySeeder)->run(); – PhillipMcCubbin Jul 28 '21 at 16:03
Use `$this->call(MySeeder:.class)` is running from inside another Seeder – alvaropgl Aug 28 '23 at 09:06

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '18 at 08:29

You can add parameters to the seeder on run

example

  $newSchool = School::create($data);

     $schoolMeals = new \MealSeeder();
     $schoolMeals->run($newSchool->id);

//school meal

 public function run($school = 1)
    {

        $time = Carbon::now();

        App\Meal::create([
            'school_id' => $school,
            'name' => 'Breakfast',
            'slug' => 'breakfast',
            'description' => 'Test Meal',
            'start_time' => $time->toTimeString(),
            'end_time' => $time->addMinutes(60)->toTimeString(),
        ]);
        App\Meal::create([
            'school_id' => $school,
            'name' => 'Lunch',
            'slug' => 'lunch',
            'description' => 'Test Meal',
            'start_time' => $time->toTimeString(),
            'end_time' => $time->addMinutes(60)->toTimeString(),
        ]);
        App\Meal::create([
            'school_id' => $school,
            'name' => 'Supper',
            'slug' => 'supper',
            'description' => 'Test Meal',
            'start_time' => $time->toTimeString(),
            'end_time' => $time->addMinutes(60)->toTimeString(),
        ]);
    }

Run Laravel 5 seeder programmatically instead of from CLI

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