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

Just for a seeder you can use something like this:

   for ($i = 0; $i < 50; $i++) {
        $user = factory(App\User::class)->create();

        $role = factory(App\Role::class)->create();

        DB::table('role_user')->insert([
            'user_id' => $user->id,
            'role_id' => $role->id
        ]);
    }

But normally you need to define relation like has many through https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent-relationships#has-many-through

Then you will be able to use:

$user->roles()->save($role);