Seed generator (SeedGen) is a Laravel 4 package that provides a method to generate a new seed file based on data from the existing database table.

Installation

1) Edit your project's composer.json file to require adamgoose/seed-gen.

"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
    "adamgoose/seed-gen": "dev-master"
}

2) Update Composer from the CLI:

composer update

3) Once this operation completes, add the service provider by opening a app/config/app.php file, and adding a new item to the providers array.

'Adamgoose\SeedGen\SeedGenServiceProvider'

Usage

To generate a seed file simply call: \SeedGen::generateSeed('users');

This will create a file inside a /app/database/seeds, with the contents similar to following example:

<?php

// File: /app/database/seeds/UsersTableSeeder.php

class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder {

    /**
     * Auto generated seed file
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        \DB::table('users')->delete();
        \DB::table('users')->insert(array (
            0 =>
            array (
                'id' => '1',
                'email' => 'admin@admin.com',
                'password' => '$2y$10$tUGCkQf/0NY3w1l9sobGsudt6UngnoVXx/lUoh9ElcSOD0ERRkK9C',
                'permissions' => NULL,
                'activated' => '1',
                'activation_code' => NULL,
                'activated_at' => NULL,
                'last_login' => NULL,
                'persist_code' => NULL,
                'reset_password_code' => NULL,
                'first_name' => NULL,
                'last_name' => NULL,
                'created_at' => '2013-06-11 07:47:40',
                'updated_at' => '2013-06-11 07:47:40',
            ),
            1 =>
            array (
                'id' => '2',
                'email' => 'user@user.com',
                'password' => '$2y$10$ImNvsMzK/BOgNSYgpjs/3OjMKMHeA9BH/hjl43EiuBuLkZGPMuZ2W',
                'permissions' => NULL,
                'activated' => '1',
                'activation_code' => NULL,
                'activated_at' => NULL,
                'last_login' => '2013-06-11 07:54:57',
                'persist_code' => '$2y$10$C0la8WuyqC6AU2TpUwj0I.E3Mrva8A3tuVFWxXN5u7jswRKzsYYHK',
                'reset_password_code' => NULL,
                'first_name' => NULL,
                'last_name' => NULL,
                'created_at' => '2013-06-11 07:47:40',
                'updated_at' => '2013-06-11 07:54:57',
            ),
        ));
    }

}

This command will also update app/database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php to include a call to this newly generated seed class.

To (re)seed the database go to the Terminal and run Laravel's db:seed command (php artisan db:seed).