This document discusses using Doctrine fixtures and the Faker library to generate fake test data for entities in a Symfony application. It explains how to install and configure Doctrine fixtures bundles, structure fixture classes, and load fixtures. It then covers installing and using the Faker library to generate random names, addresses, phone numbers and more. It provides examples of localizing Faker, seeding values, and generating unique or optional values. The document concludes by discussing using Faker to populate ORM entities and customizing population values.

1. Doctrine Fixtures
with Fake Data

2. Doctrine Fixtures
● Installation
○ composer.json
{
"require-dev": {
"doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-bundle": "dev-master"
}
}
○ php composer.phar update doctrine/doctrine-fixtures-
bundle
○ app/appKernel.php
if (in_array($this->getEnvironment(), array('dev', 'test'))) {
/* ... other bundles */
$bundles[] = new DoctrineBundleFixturesBundleDoctrineFixturesBundle();
}

3. DoctrineFixtures Structure
● Source folder : {BundlesName}DataFixturesORMLoad{EntityName}Data.php
● class naming : Load{EntityName}Data
● extends class:
○ DoctrineCommonDataFixturesAbstractFixture
○ method: Load(DoctrineCommonPersistenceObjectManager $em)
● Implements interface:
○ DoctrineCommonDataFixturesOrderedFixtureInterface
○ method: getOrder()
● Internal method
○ addReference($name,$entityObject);
○ hasReference($name)
○ getReference($name)
● Command: php app/console doctrine:fixtures:load

4. fzaninotto/Faker
● Installation
php composer.phar require “fzaninotto/faker dev-master”
● Base Usage
$faker = FakerFactory::create();
$name = $faker->name;
$phone = $faker->phoneNumber;
$url = $faker->url;

5. fzaninotto/Faker - Formats
Localation
● Person
● Address
● Company
● PhoneNumber
General
● Lorem
● Internet / UserAgent
● File
● Color
● Uuid
● DateTime
● Base(Random, Regex)
● Miscellaneous
● CreditCard

6. zaninotto/Faker
● Localization
$faker = FakerFactory::create('en_US');
$faker = FakerFactory::create('fr_FR');
● Seed
$faker = FakerFactory::create();
$faker->seed(1234);

7. fzaninotto/Faker
Unique and Optional modifiers
● required value
$faker->randomDigit;
● non-required values (default 0.5)
$faker->optional($weight = 0.1)->randomDigit; // 10% chance to get null
$faker->optional($weight = 0.9)->randomDigit; // 90% chance to get null
● unique value();
$faker->unique()->randomDigit;
$faker->unique($reset=true)->randomDigit;

8. fzaninotto/Faker (work with ORM entity)
● Orm adapters : Propel, Doctrine2,
Mandango
$generator = FakerFactory::create();
$populator = new FakerORMPropelPopulator($generator);
$populator->addEntity('Author', 5);
$populator->addEntity('SomeOneBundleEntityBook', 10);
$insertedPKs = $populator->execute();
● Populator by guessing
○ column name
○ column type
○ column length

9. fzaninotto/Faker (work with ORM entity)
custom populating value
● Null Value
$populator->addEntity('Book', 5, array(
'CreatedAt' => null
));
● anonyomous function
$populator->addEntity('SomeOneBundleEntityPerson', 10,array(
'birthday' => function() use ($gen) {
return $gen->dateTimeBetween($startDate = '-80 years', $endDate
= '-10 years')->format("Y-m-d") ;
}
));

10. fzaninotto/Faker
● Internal Provider
○ FakerGenerator
○ FakerFactory::create();
● Custom Provider

11. Other Agenda
● Alice Faker Library
○ https://github.com/nelmio/alice
○ https://github.com/hautelook/AliceBundle
● Image Faker ?
○ http://image-faker.rmhdev.net/
○ http://fakeimg.pl/

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