(Realistic)Faker requires PHP >= 7.1.
composer require null/realisticfakerTo start with an example, add a simple php-file with the contents of:
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->gender .' | ' . $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' . $faker->email;Difference to faker.
Faker is cool. Like you can
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->firstName . ' | ' . $faker->jobTitle;which will give you
Jayda | Receptionist and Information Clerk
Daphney | Woodworker
Hope | Refractory Materials Repairer
and so on
But what isn't cool is if you write
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' . $faker->email;it will give you
Randy DuBuque | mcorkery@gmail.com
Emelia Thompson | halvorson.lura@mertz.info
That's how faker works (it uses __get() magic), but not what we expected. Here RealisticFaker jumps in:
Based on fakerphp/faker this library gives you the possibility to create (more) realistic fakeprofiles in which e.g. the email-adress matches the person's name
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create();
echo $faker->gender .' | ' . $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' . $faker->email;1st call:
male | Dock Stiedemann | dock.stiedemann@damore.com
2nd call:
female | Citlalli Cole | citlalli45@swift.net
... and so on
You can also add an identifier - so the "random" person will be the same on each call (what you would probably want for longer tests using personas). So basically the functionality of "seeding" ($faker->seed($unique)) is included in the constructor.
$identifier = "admin";
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create($identifier);
echo $faker->gender .' | ' . $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' . $faker->email;this will always give you:
male | Geovanni Mohr | geovanni.mohr@yahoo.com
of course you can use all the features of the original Faker
echo $faker->jobTitle
echo $faker->address
echo $faker->bankAccountNumber
$faker->addProvider(...);and so on ...
You can use all the original translations of faker. Only the constructor is different:
$faker = RealisticFaker\Factory::create("admin", "de_DE");
echo $faker->gender .' | ' . $faker->firstName . ' ' .$faker->lastName .' | ' . $faker->email;RealisticFaker is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.