Create table with few rows with migration in laravel - php

Question

I would like to create a table that will save the data for only 10 rows. How can I do it via migration in Laravel 5.3?

Answer 1

Laravel 5.3 provides seeding, also combined with model factories. I'm guessing you're using Eloquent models instead of query builder.
Model Factory
Here an example from Laravel (https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/seeding#using-model-factories)
factory(App\User::class, 10)->create();
This code creates 10 fake users via the User Eloquent model. The declaration of a fake user could be done in database/factories/ModelFactory.php.
Seeding
Again, a partial example from Laravel (https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/seeding#writing-seeders). You can call the model factory directly from the existing DatabaseSeeder (no need to create a new seeder).
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* #return void
*/
public function run()
{
factory(App\User::class, 10)->create();
}
}
Run
php artisan db:seed to seed the data in existing table structure
php artisan migrate:refresh --seed for completely rebuilding your database and running the seeders
Full documentation and examples, see the provided links above.

Answer 2

There is no such restriction. You can create table as usual and just add 10 rows. If you're asking about hwo to add 10 rows to the table, read about seeding.
Also, if you have just 10 simple rows, consider using config file for that. You can do something like this:
'my-data' => [
1 => ['name' => 'John', 'age' => 30],
2 => ['name' => 'Alan', 'age' => 40],
....
],
And access this data with config('my-config.my-data')

Answer 3

If you want a dummy data to be filled into your table without any hassle you can take a use of Faker Package by fzaninotto.
The process would be like
Install faker via running below command in terminal (from project's root directory):
composer require fzaninotto/faker
Then in your routes.php you can push dummy entries like this:
// Just for an example I am using route to demonstrate the general use
Route::get('/customers',function(){
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
$limit = 10; // this value sets number of rows to be created
// generate data by accessing properties
for ($i = 0; $i < $limit; $i++) {
User::create([
'name' => $faker->name,
'email' => $faker->email,
'phoneNumber' => $faker->phoneNumber,
]);
}
});
This would create total 10 rows in your table with some dummy data.. Hope this helps