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

I want to share the approach i've taken for insert many posts to many users:`

factory(App\User::class, 50)->create() 
                ->each( 
                    function ($u) {
                        factory(App\Post::class, 10)->create()
                                ->each(
                                    function($p) use (&$u) { 
                                        $u->posts()->save($p)->make();
                                    }
                                );
                    }
                );

`

This workaround worked for me after being all day long looking for a way to seed the relationship