Section 1: Data Preparation

Create Model & Migration Script

Run following command in terminal:

php artisan make:model Post -m

This will create a model named Post.php in app folder and a migration script timestamp_create_posts_table.php in database\migrations folder.

Open up your timestamp_create_posts_table.php in database\migrations folder and update the schema accordingly.

Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('post');
    $table->timestamps();
});

In order to user Post::create() method, you need to define the $fillable property of the model class.

protected $fillable = [
    'post',
];

Run the following command to check the migration status:

php artisan migrate:status

If there's still N status, you can run the following command to run the migration scripts.

php artisan migrate

Where you define your data format, how it should be inserted when calling it from factory() helper.

$factory->define(App\Post::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
    return [
        'post' => $faker->sentence,
    ];
});

Create a seeder file using following command:

php artisan make:seeder PostTableSeeder

Open PostTableSeeder.php located at database\seeds folder and call the factory for Post, as following in run method:

factory(\App\Post::class, 100)->create();

There's three ways in seeding data.

Following command will seed data by calling DatabaseSeeder.php:

php artisan db:seed

Following command will seed data by calling seeder class name:

php artisan db:seed --class=PostSeeder

Following command will seed data after do the migration:

php artisan migrate --seed