Laravel - Seeding Many-to-Many Relationship

Question

I have a users table and a roles table that has a many-to-many relationship. These two tables ar

Answer 1

A much cleaner method can be: after you define the factory for App\User and App\Roles you can call the afterCreating method like this:

$factory->define(App\User::class, function ...);
$factory->define(App\Role::class, function ...);

$factory->afterCreating(App\User::class, function ($row, $faker) {
    $row->roles()->attach(rand(1,20));
});

Then in Seeds you first create the roles, then the users

public function run()
{
    factory(App\Role::class, 20)->create();
    factory(App\User::class, 50)->create();
}

Now you have 50 users each of them with one role attached.