In this tutorial you will learn about the Laravel 8 Database Seeder Tutorial Example and its application with practical example.
In this Laravel 8 Database Seeder Tutorial Example tutorial I will show you how to how to create database seeder in laravel 8 application. In this tutorial you will learn how to create database seeder in laravel 8 and what is command to create seeder and how to run that seeder in laravel 8. In this article I will share example to insert data using Database Seeder in Laravel. I’ll show you how to create database seeder class for a table, seed data in seeder, call database seeder and run database seeder. In this example, we assume that we already have admins table created and wants to seed some test data into it.
Laravel 8 Database Seeder Tutorial Example
In this step by step tutorial I will demonstrate you with example to create Database Seeder In laravel 8. Please follow the instruction given below:
Create Seeder Command:
Seeder class file can be generated using following artisan command:
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php artisan make:seeder AdminUserSeeder |
the above command, will create one file AdminUserSeeder.php on seeds folder. All seed classes are stored in the database/seeds directory. Then we will create admin user using model in laravel.
database/seeds/AdminUserSeeder.php
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<?php use Illuminate\Database\Seeder; use App\Models\User; class AdminUserSeeder extends Seeder { /** * Run the database seeds. * * @return void */ public function run() { User::create([ 'name' => 'Hardik', 'email' => 'admin@gmail.com', 'password' => bcrypt('123456'), ]); } } |
Now, we can run seeder in following ways:
Way 1: Run Single Seeder
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php artisan db:seed --class=AdminUserSeeder |
Way 2: Run All Seeders
database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php
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<?php use Illuminate\Database\Seeder; class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder { /** * Seed the application's database. * * @return void */ public function run() { $this->call(AdminUserSeeder::class); } } |
Now you need to run following command for run all listed seeder:
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php artisan db:seed |
