Laravel — P31: Faker

Dino Cajic
Geek Culture
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10 min readJan 16, 2023

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Dino Cajic on the Faker Library in Laravel

What’s a faker? It’s exactly as it sounds. You’re trying to fake something. Instead of coming up with the data yourself, you simply state, “Faker, give me a unique random email address,” and faker spits it out for you.

In Laravel, Faker is a library that generates fake data for testing purposes. It can be used to generate random names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and other types of fake data that can be used to…

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Dino Cajic
Geek Culture

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.