Training SeederMakeCommand in Laravel 11

Hello! Today, we are going to talk about one of the useful features of Laravel 11, which can assist us in easily adding initial data to our database. This feature is called Seeder. Seeders are pieces of code that allow us to create predefined records in our database tables. This helps us to effectively utilize test and display databases and facilitate the development of our applications.

By using the command named SeederMakeCommand in this version of Laravel, we can easily create new Seeders. In fact, this command provides us the ability to quickly create Seeder files and update their content. This feature is particularly useful when we have a large number of models and data to work with; it is very handy.

So how can we use this command? First, you need to execute the command line on your Laravel project to run this command. In fact, by executing a simple command, Laravel will generate a new Seeder file for us that we can then define records in that table. However, this file is usually created in the directory database/seeders.

Let's take a look at the structure of this file once we execute this command. When this command is executed, a new class is created that we need to implement the run() method in. In this method, we define everything that we want to add to the database. Subsequently, we can easily run this Seeder through another command to add data to the database.

php artisan make:seeder UserSeeder

This command will create a Seeder file named UserSeeder for you. Now, let’s take a look at the content of this file and see how we can fill it out.

namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class UserSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        DB::table('users')->insert([
            ['name' => 'Ali', 'email' => 'ali@example.com'],
            ['name' => 'Sara', 'email' => 'sara@example.com'],
        ]);
    }
}

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