Example
To create seeders, you may use the make:seeder Artisan command. All seeders generated will be placed in the database/seeds directory.
$ php artisan make:seeder MoviesTableSeeder
Generated seeders will contain one method: run. You may insert data into your database in this method.
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class MoviesTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* @return void
*/
public function run()
{
App\Movie::create([
'name' => 'A New Hope',
'year' => '1977'
]);
App\Movie::create([
'name' => 'The Empire Strikes Back',
'year' => '1980'
]);
}
}
You will generally want to call all your seeders inside the DatabaseSeeder class.
Once you're done writing the seeders, use the db:seed command. This will run DatabaseSeeder's run function.
$ php artisan db:seed
You may also specify to run a specific seeder class to run individually using the --class option.
$ php artisan db:seed --class=UserSeeder
If you want to rollback and rerun all migrations, and then reseed:
$ php artisan migrate:refresh --seed
The
migrate:refresh --seedcommand is a shortcut to these 3 commands:$ php artisan migrate:reset # rollback all migrations $ php artisan migrate # run migrations $ php artisan db:seed # run seeders
