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Reputation: 19463

Laravel 4 Call to undefined method create()

I am trying to do database seed to my new database table.

ProductSeeder.php

class ProductSeeder extends DatabaseSeeder {

public function run()
{
    $products = array(
        array(
            'name' => 'DSLR D300S (body only)',
            'image' => 'D300S_16_85_front34l_i.jpg',
            'stock' => 'Available',
            'price'=>'5188.00'
            )
        );


    foreach ($products as $product) {
        Product::create($product);
    }
}
}

model/Product.php

class Product extends Eloquent{
}

However, when I run db:seed it says "Call to undefined method Product::create()".

How could I solve it? Thank you.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4129

Answers (4)

John Smith
John Smith

Reputation: 1814

Cannot say if its your problem, but i was getting this error due to a typo in my seeder file

Instead of 

Product::create($product);

I had 

// note only one semicolon
Product:create($product);

This it at any rate definately causes the same error !

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function create()

So i would definately recommend you check your code again

Also i was only extendting Seeder and not DatabaseSeeder So also try 

class ProductSeeder extends Seeder {

Upvotes: 0

David Barker
David Barker

Reputation: 14620

When seeding your database relying on models isn't a particularly good idea, this comes to the forefront when you're trying to unit test (database test) your models through repositories.

Instead use the raw query builder (with the fluent interface).

DB::table('products')->insert(array(...));

Upvotes: 3

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

Reputation: 87789

The best practice to seed in Laravel is to use 'DB::table()':

class ProductSeeder extends DatabaseSeeder {

    public function run()
    {

        $products = array(
                            array(
                                'name' => 'DSLR D300S (body only)',
                                'image' => 'D300S_16_85_front34l_i.jpg',
                                'stock' => 'Available',
                                'price'=>'5188.00'
                                )
                        );

        foreach ($products as $product) {
            DB::table('products')->insert($products);
        }

    }

}

Upvotes: 0

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 3658

Class Product needs to have a method Create.

class Product extends Eloquent{

    public function create($product)
    {
        // Do something
    }

}

Upvotes: -1

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