Laravel - Seeding Relationships

Question

In Laravel, database seeding is generally accomplished through Model factories. So you define a blueprint for your Model using Faker data, and say how many instances you ne

Answer 1

$factory->define(App\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
    return [
        'name' => $faker->name,
        'email' => $faker->email,
        'password' => bcrypt(str_random(10)),
        'remember_token' => str_random(10),
    ];
});

$factory->define(App\Post::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
    return [
        'name' => $faker->name,
        'body' => $faker->paragraph(1),
        'user_id' => factory(App\User::class)->create()->id,
    ];
});

So now if you do this factory(App\Post::class, 4)->create() it will create 4 different posts and in the process also create 4 different users.

If you want the same user for all the posts what I usually do is:

$user = factory(App\User::class)->create();
$posts = factory(App\Posts::class, 40)->create(['user_id' => $user->id]);