How to use modelfactory in seeder in Laravel 5.4 - php

Question

I am using model factories in NewsTableSeeder, but I get this error when I entered db:seed.
I want to know why I can't use create() in my seeder.
Here is my News model:
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class News extends Model
{
protected $table = 'news';
protected $primaryKey = 'id';
public function home_news_lists() {
return $this->select('id', 'news_title', 'news_update')
->orderBy('news_update', 'DESC')
->limit(5)
->get();
}
public function lists() {
return News::all();
}
}
Model Factories:
$factory->define(App\Models\News::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker)
{
static $password;
$faker = $faker->create('zh_TW');
return [
'news_title' => $faker->sentence(),
'news_content' => $faker->paragraph(),
'news_author' => $faker->name(),
'news_pageviews' => $faker->numberBetween(1, 100),
'news_file' => ' ',
'news_img' => $faker->imageUrl($width, $height, 'business'),
'created_at' => $faker->dateTimeBetween('2012', 'now', 'zh_TW'),
'updated_at' => $faker->dateTimeBetween('2015', 'now', 'zh_TW')
];
});
NewsTableSeeder :
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
class NewsTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* #return void
*/
public function run()
{
factory(App\Models\News::class, 50)->create();
}
}

Answer 1

I can't tell 100% without seeing exactly the error you got, but I do believe there is no create() method on the $faker object.
I believe what you mean to do is:
$factory->define(App\Models\News::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker)
{
static $password;
$faker = \Faker\Factory::create('zh_TW'); // change to this
return [
...
];
}
I would just create a new faker generator (\Faker\Generator) that gets returned from calling \Faker\Factory::create($locale) and use that instead. Otherwise, I believe your next best option is to override wherever Laravel instantiates the \Faker\Generator $faker object that gets passed into the callback, but that may get hacky if Laravel doesn't provide a clean way to do it.
The create() method is a static call on the \Faker\Factory method. It accepts a locale as the parameter and uses en_US as the default locale.

Answer 2

$faker = $faker->create('zh_TW');
The error message said this code is wrong.
What is your purpose to use this code?