laravel4cookbook

E-Commerce 241
18 $price = $faker->randomFloat(2, 5, 100);
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20 Product::create([
21 "name" => $name,
22 "stock" => $stock,
23 "price" => $price,
24 "category_id" => $category->id
25 ]);
26 }
27 }
28 }
29 }
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This file should be saved as app/database/seeds/ProductTableSeeder.php.
Here, we use the randomNumber() and randomFloat() methods. What’s actually happening, when
you request a property value, is that Faker invokes a method of the same name (on one of the
providers). We can just as easily use the $faker->word() means the same as $faker->word. Some of
the methods (such as the random*() methods we’ve used here) take arguments, so we provide them
in the method form.
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