In Laravel, how do I retrieve a random user_id from the Users table for Model Factory seeding data generation?

Question

Currently, in my ModelFactory.php, I have:

$factory->define(App\\Reply::class, function (Faker\\Generator $faker) {
  return [
    \'thread_id\' => 1,
         


        

Answer 1

Any class that extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model will be able to do this:

User::inRandomOrder()->first()

Or to get a Collection of 3 items:

User::inRandomOrder()->limit(3)->get()

This might be more efficient than using User::all()->first(), which ought to first query all Users.

Your IDE (like PhpStorm) will probably be wildly confused that this is an option though.

Also see: Laravel - Eloquent or Fluent random row