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cliff12345
cliff12345

Reputation: 13

Laravel Factory

Hi I am new to creating factories on Laravel and I am setting up a blog website. There is no need for users at this time as it is a draft but I am trying to set up a factory to create dummy blog posts.

I have a Post.php file which looks like this:

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    protected $table = 'posts';

    public $primaryKey = 'id';

    public $timestamps = true;
}

My PostFactory looks like this

use App\Post;
use Faker\Generator as Faker;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

$factory->define(App\Post::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        'title' => $faker->name,
        'body' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
    ];
});

but everytime i try to create the records it throws this error "InvalidArgumentException with message 'Unable to locate factory for [App/Post].'" i know its about linking these files but i cannot figure out how to do it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 997

Answers (1)

Aless55
Aless55

Reputation: 2709

First as mentioned above your file must be named Post.php and not posts.php.

Since you are using App\Post at the beginning of your file, you can simply call Post::class $factory->define(Post::class, function (Faker $faker)

Another option could also be that you are missing the factories folder in your composer classmap:

"autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        },
        "classmap": [
            "database/seeds",
            "database/factories"
        ]
    },

If this does not solve the problem, then you might need to post your code where you are calling your factory

@edit

this is pretty good overview over conventions

Upvotes: 3

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