CakePHP Fixture Factories

Write and run your tests faster. On any PHP application.

This branch is for CakePHP 5.0+. See version map for details.

A maintained fork of vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories with:

• Multiple data generators via adapters (Faker, DummyGenerator, custom).
• Modern configurable generator type guessing per field name/type when baking.

📚 Documentation

👉 dereuromark.github.io/cakephp-fixture-factories

The full guide, reference, and migration notes live there.

Installation

composer require --dev dereuromark/cakephp-fixture-factories

Quick Example

ArticleFactory::new()
    ->count(5)
    ->with('Authors[3].Address.City.Country')
    ->saveMany();

Five articles, each with three authors, each with an address chain — persisted, in one expression.

See Getting Started for the full walkthrough.

Resources

CakeFest 2021 - IPC-Berlin 2020 - CakeFest 2020

Contribute

Send PRs or tickets in GitHub.

Authors

Previously, Juan Pablo Ramirez and Nicolas Masson. This fork is maintained by Mark Scherer (dereuromark).

License

The CakePHPFixtureFactories plugin is offered under an MIT license.

Copyright 2023 Juan Pablo Ramirez and Nicolas Masson.

Licensed under The MIT License. Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.