A Laravel Conversation with ChatGPT

Dino Cajic
8 min readMar 22, 2023

Other than creating completely new content, like a new framework, I’m not seeing the benefit of creating content like Laravel articles when you have ChatGPT. I’ll continue writing it of course, but I can’t see much benefit that the user gets especially when you have something like ChatGPT available under your toolbelt. Here’s a conversation that I had with it since I was curious about a topic that I’m very familiar with. I wanted to see how well it performs.

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Show me an example of how to use the faker library in Laravel.

Sure, here’s an example of how to use the Faker library in Laravel:

First, you need to install the Faker library using Composer. Run the following command in your terminal:

composer require fzaninotto/faker

Once the installation is complete, open the file where you want to use Faker, for example, a database seeder file or a controller action.

In the top of the file, import the Faker namespace:

use Faker\Factory as Faker;

Now you can create an instance of Faker and use it to generate fake data. For example, to generate a random name…

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Dino Cajic

Author of An Illustrative Introduction to Algorithms. IT Leader with a B.S. in Computer Science, a minor in Biology, and a passion for learning.