Available Types of Data Generation

DBContextSeeder provides a wide set of built-in seeders organized by category. Each seeder represents a type of data that can be automatically generated and inserted into your database.

Use these seeders with the TableSeeder fluent API to quickly define realistic and diverse data for testing and development.

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📇 Personal

Seeder	Description
EmailSeeder	Generates random email addresses
FirstNameSeeder	Generates first names
FullNameSeeder	Generates full names
LastNameSeeder	Generates last names
PasswordSeeder	Generates or hashes passwords
PhoneNumberSeeder	Generates phone numbers
TitleSeeder	Generates name titles (Mr., Dr.)
UsernameSeeder	Generates usernames

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🕒 Temporal

Seeder	Description
DateSeeder	Generates random dates
TimezoneSeeder	Generates timezones (e.g., UTC+1)

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🏢 Company

Seeder	Description
CompanyNameSeeder	Generates company names

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💰 Currency

Seeder	Description
CurrencyCodeSeeder	Generates currency codes (USD, EUR)

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🌍 Geography

Seeder	Description
AddressSeeder	Full address
BuildingNumberSeeder	Generates building numbers
CitySeeder	Generates city names
CountrySeeder	Country names
CountryCodeSeeder	Country codes (e.g., PT, US)
LatitudeSeeder	Generates latitude
LongitudeSeeder	Generates longitude
PostcodeSeeder	Generates postal codes
StreetAddressSeeder	Full street address
StreetNameSeeder	Street names
StreetSuffixSeeder	Street suffixes (Ave, Rd, etc.)

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🌐 Internet

Seeder	Description
DomainNameSeeder	Generates domain names
Ipv4Seeder	Random IPv4 address
Ipv6Seeder	Random IPv6 address
LocalIpv4Seeder	Local IPv4 addresses
MacAddressSeeder	MAC addresses
UrlSeeder	Generates URLs

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🔢 Numbers

Seeder	Description
DigitSeeder	Single random digit (0–9)
DigitNotSeeder	Digit excluding specific values
DigitalNotNullSeeder	Non-zero digits
FloatSeeder	Float values with optional precision
NumberSeeder	Generic number generation
NumberBetweenSeeder	Numbers between a defined range

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💳 Payment

Seeder	Description
CreditCardDetailsSeeder	Generates full credit card details
CreditCardExpirationDateSeeder	Generates expiration dates
CreditCardNumberSeeder	Valid credit card numbers
CreditCardTypeSeeder	Card type (Visa, MasterCard, etc.)
IbanSeeder	Generates valid IBANs
SwiftBicNumberSeeder	Generates SWIFT/BIC codes

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🧪 Miscellaneous

Seeder	Description
ArraySeeder	Picks random value from array
BooleanSeeder	Random boolean (true/false)
CsvSeeder	Extracts values from CSV
EmojiSeeder	Generates emojis
FileSeeder	Reads values from a file
LanguageCodeSeeder	ISO language codes (e.g., en, pt)
LocaleSeeder	Locale codes (e.g., pt_PT, en_US)
Md5Seeder	Generates MD5 hashes
SequentialNumberSeeder	Generates incrementing numbers
Sha1Seeder	SHA1 hashes
Sha256Seeder	SHA256 hashes
SqlSeeder	Executes raw SQL to fetch values
TimeSeriesSeeder	Generates time-based sequences (e.g., for charts)
ValueSeeder	Static or fixed value
WeightValuesSeeder	Picks from a weighted distribution

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✏️ Text

Seeder	Description
BothifySeeder	Generates a string based on a pattern
LexifySeeder	Generates a string based on a pattern
LetterSeeder	Generates a random letter
RandomStringSeeder	Generates a string of a given size
TextSeeder	Generates text of a given size

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🧠 Tip

You don’t have to use these classes directly. Instead, use the convenient fluent syntax from TableSeeder:

$seeder = new TableSeeder('table', 'en_US');
$seeder->email('email');
$seeder->value('password', '123');
$seeder->weightValues('type', ['admin' => 1, 'user' => 10]);