Faker Baseball ⚾

A Faker provider that uses the Fighting Baseball roster to generate names, teams, and positions.

Installation

Add the Faker Baseball library to your composer.json file:

composer require cspivack/faker-baseball

Usage

To use this provider with Faker, you must add the provider class to the Faker generator:

<?php

$faker = \Faker\Factory::create();
$faker->addProvider(new \Faker\Provider\FightingBaseballProvider($faker));

/* General data */
$faker->playerName();          // A name using random first and last names
$faker->playerPosition();      // One of the positions in the game
$faker->playerTeam();          // One of the teams in the game

/* Data for a specific player */
$faker->player()->name();      // A player's full name
$faker->player()->firstName(); // A player's first name
$faker->player()->lastName();  // A player's first name
$faker->player()->team();      // A player's team
$faker->player()->position();  // A player's position
$faker->player()->benched();   // Whether the player is coming off the bench or not (boolean)

To use this provider with Laravel factories, add this to your AppServiceProvider's register() method:

public function register()
{
    $this->app->singleton(Generator::class, function () {
        $faker = Factory::create();
        $faker->addProvider(new \Faker\Provider\FightingBaseballProvider($faker));
        return $faker;
    });
}

Tests

Run tests with composer test and run static analyis with composer phpstan.

Roadmap

• Add support for team/player relationships (getting a list of all players on a particular team, getting a player's teammates, etc.)