laravel factory insert foreign key - php

Question

Hello everyone who's trying to help,
im trying to create the factory file to seeding my database and i have a question how can i insert a foreign key from a table already seeded ?
and the factory code is to have all in same file? any good pratice to this ?
Files
Model User
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
protected $table = 'user'; //name of the table in database
protected $primaryKey = 'Id'; //Primary Key of the table
/**
* Relations between tables
*/
public function GetLoginInfo()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\LoginInfo', 'UserId');
}
public function getStatus()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\AccountStatus');
}
}
Model Account status
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class AccountStatus extends Model
{
protected $table = 'account_status'; //name of the table in database
protected $primaryKey = 'Id'; //primary Key of the table
public $timestamps = false; //true if this table have timestaps
/**
* Relations between tables
*/
public function GetUsers()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Users', 'StatusId');
}
}
factory file:
<?php
/** #var \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factory $factory */
//Factory for Account Status table
$factory->define(App\Models\AccountStatus::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
'Description' => $faker->word,
];
});
//Factory for user table
$factory->define(App\Models\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
'Username' => $faker->unique()->userName,
'Password' => bcrypt('test'),
'Email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
'Name' => $faker->name,
'StatusId' => Factory(App\Models\AccountStatus::class)->create()->id,
];
});
This is what im trying to do as you can see : Factory(App\Models\AccountStatus::class)->create()->id but don't work

Answer 1

$factory->define(App\Models\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
'Username' => $faker->unique()->userName,
'Password' => bcrypt('test'),
'Email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
'Name' => $faker->name,
'StatusId' => factory(App\Models\AccountStatus::class)->create()->id,
];
});
i see an uppercase F in factory..
$factory->define(App\Models\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
$accountStatus = factory(App\Models\AccountStatus::class)->create()
return [
'Username' => $faker->unique()->userName,
'Password' => bcrypt('test'),
'Email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
'Name' => $faker->name,
'StatusId' => $accountStatus->id,
];
});
Edit (Improvement)
If you have one model that depend on another model. you can do it this way, using a callback function to create with the related.
Like this
$factory->define(App\Models\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
'Username' => $faker->unique()->userName,
'Password' => bcrypt('test'),
'Email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail,
'Name' => $faker->name,
'StatusId' => function () {
return factory(App\Models\AccountStatus::class)->create()->id;
}
];
});
One thing you need to keep in mind is that this will go to an endless loop if the related(Status Model) has a model that depends on the parent(User Model).