database/factories/TeacherFactory.php
<?php
use DavideCasiraghi\LaravelEventsCalendar\Models\Teacher;
use Faker\Generator as Faker;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Model Factories
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Factories provide a convenient way to generate new
| model instances for testing / seeding your application's database.
|
*/
$factory->define(Teacher::class, function (Faker $faker) {
$teacher_name = $faker->name;
$slug = Str::slug($teacher_name, '-').rand(10000, 100000);
$year_starting_practice = $faker->numberBetween($min = 1972, $max = 2018);
$year_starting_teach = $faker->numberBetween($min = $year_starting_practice, $max = 2018);
return [
'name' => $teacher_name,
'bio' => $faker->paragraph,
'year_starting_practice' => $year_starting_practice,
'year_starting_teach' => $year_starting_teach,
'significant_teachers' => $faker->paragraph,
//'profile_picture' => Str::random(10).".jpg", //this can cause an error in the tests
'website' => $faker->url,
'facebook' => 'https://www.facebook.com/'.$faker->word,
'created_by' => '1',
'slug' => $slug,
'country_id' => $faker->numberBetween($min = 1, $max = 253),
];
});