Laravel includes a simple method of seeding your database with test data using seed classes. All seed classes are stored in the database/seeds directory. Seed classes may have any name you wish but probably should follow some sensible convention, such as UsersTableSeeder, etc. By default, a DatabaseSeeder class is defined for you. From this class, you may use the call method to run other seed classes, allowing you to control the seeding order.
Laravel includes a simple method of seeding your database with test data using seed classes. All seed classes are stored in the database/seeds directory. Seed classes may have any name you wish, but probably should follow some sensible convention, such as UsersTableSeeder, etc. By default, a DatabaseSeeder class is defined for you. From this class, you may use the call method to run other seed classes, allowing you to control the seeding order.
Example Database Seed Class
class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder {
public function run()
{
$this->call('UserTableSeeder');
$this->command->info('User table seeded!');
}
}
class UserTableSeeder extends Seeder {
public function run()
{
DB::table('users')->delete();
User::create(['email' => 'foo@bar.com']);
}
}
To seed your database, you may use the db:seed command on the Artisan CLI:
php artisan db:seed
By default, the db:seed command runs the DatabaseSeeder class, which may be used to call other seed classes. However, you may use the --class option to specify a specific seeder class to run individually:
php artisan db:seed --class=UserTableSeeder
You may also seed your database using the migrate:refresh command, which will also rollback and re-run all of your migrations:
php artisan migrate:refresh --seed
