Laravel Factory Generators

Generate factories for all non-created factories of models.

Installation

composer require mcmatters/laravel-factory-generators

Include the service provider within your config/app.php file.

'providers' => [
    McMatters\FactoryGenerators\ServiceProvider::class,
]

Publish the configuration.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="McMatters\FactoryGenerators\ServiceProvider"

Then open the config/factory-generators.php and configure paths where your models are locating.

Advanced configuration

Name	Description
folders	models - path where models are locating factories - path where factories are locating.
follow_subdirectories	Enable this option if your models are in subdirectories and you wish to keep the structure of the folders. For example, if your model has next namespace: App\Models\User\Profile it will generate in your factories folder subdirectory with name User including ProfileFactory.php file. NOTE: If you enable this option, please specify the root namespace.
model_namespace	Requires only, if you enabled option above.
types	An array of custom types for DBAL. For example: 'json' => 'string'.
prefix	Prefix for factory files.
suffix	Suffix for factory files.
skip_columns	An array of the global column names for skipping, for example, you may wish to skip created_at and updated_at columns in all models.
skip_models	An array of the fully qualified model names for skipping.
skip_model_columns	An associative array with skipping columns for specific model. Example: 'App\Models\User' => ['password', 'remember_token'].
align_array_keys	If this option will be enabled, all your factories will include aligned array keys.

Usage

Just run the command php artisan factory:generate.