Testing > CakephpFixtureFactories plugin
Create your fixtures dynamically on a test basis, accelerate the writing and maintenance of your tests.
CakePHP Fixture Factories
Write and run your tests faster. On any PHP application.
A maintained fork of vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories with:
- Multiple data generators via adapters (Faker, DummyGenerator, custom).
- Modern configurable generator type guessing per field name/type when baking.
📚 Documentation
👉 dereuromark.github.io/cakephp-fixture-factories
The full guide, reference, and migration notes live there.
Installation
composer require --dev dereuromark/cakephp-fixture-factories
Quick Example
ArticleFactory::make(5)
->with('Authors[3].Address.City.Country')
->persist();
Five articles, each with three authors, each with an address chain — persisted, in one expression.
See Getting Started for the full walkthrough.
Resources
CakeFest 2021 - IPC-Berlin 2020 - CakeFest 2020
Contribute
Send PRs or tickets in GitHub.
Authors
Previously, Juan Pablo Ramirez and Nicolas Masson. This fork is maintained by Mark Scherer (dereuromark).
License
The CakePHPFixtureFactories plugin is offered under an MIT license.
Copyright 2023 Juan Pablo Ramirez and Nicolas Masson.
Licensed under The MIT License. Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.