Magento Entity Generator

This Magento extension uses the library FAKER to generate entities with fake data for tests :

Generate customers and their addresses with fake email, address, phone number, ...
Automatically assign created customers to website, store and group
Generate orders for registred customer using randomly :
- Check and Bank Transfer as payment methods
- Flat Rate as shipping method
Depending on the module configuration in the backend, you can generate invoices and shipments for orders
Generate categories and save them as children of :
- A random existing category
- An existing category specified by user
- An existing category configured in System -> Configuration -> Entity Generator in Magento's backend
Todo : Generate products (simple, configurable, downloadable, ...)

I. Requirements

Install PHP Composer (see bellow)
Enable Check and Bank Transfer payment methods
Enable Flat Rate shipping method
Allow the use of symlinks in Magento Backend To allow the use of symlinks, in your Magento's Backend go to :

System -> Configuration -> Developer -> Template Settings -> "Allow Symlinks"

There no security risk by allowing symlinks in Magento

II. Installation

1. Install PHP-Composer :

Download composer.phar into your project :

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

This will just check a few PHP settings and then download composer.phar to your working directory.

If you are not familiar with composer, please read the composer documentations on getcomposer website

2. Create/Update your root composer.json :

If you don't have a composer.json file, create it in your Magento root folder (or outside), otherwise just update yours, you can copy this one :

{
    "name": "Your Project Name",
    "require": {
        "maverick/entity-generator": "*",
        "fzaninotto/faker": "*",
        "magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "*"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "git://github.com/maverick193/entity-generator.git"
        },
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "git://github.com/maverick193/Faker.git"
        },
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "git://github.com/magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer.git"
        }
    ],
    "extra":{
        "magento-root-dir": "htodcs/"
    }
}

composer.json and composer.phar should be in the same folder
Update the magento-root-dir node and specify your Magento root folder "web/", "./", ...
The magento-composer-installer will install the module via symlinks in your Magento folder structure, more information on magento-composer-installer

3. Install Entity Generator via composer :

php composer.phar install

That should install the extension and its dependencies in a folder named "vendor" and trigger modman to install the extension in your Magento folder structure. Finally refresh Magento's cache and configure the extension in System -> Configuration -> Entity Generator

III. Usage

Entities can be generated :

From backend (Maverick -> Entity Generator)
Via Shell commands (generator.php located in shell folder)

All information about how to generate entities can be found on Entity Generator Wiki

Compatibility

Tested on Magento :

Community >= 1.7
Enterprise >= 1.12

Support and Contribution

If you have any issues with this extension, please open an issue on Github.

Any contributions are highly appreciated. If you want to contribute, please open pull request on GitHub.

Copyright and License

License : OSL - Open Software Licence 3.0.

ajbonner/entity-generator