Alice - Expressive fixtures generator

Relying on fzaninotto/Faker, Alice allows you to create a ton of fixtures/fake data for use while developing or testing your project. It gives you a few essential tools to make it very easy to generate complex data with constraints in a readable and easy to edit way, so that everyone on your team can tweak the fixtures if needed.

Note: v3 is on its way, get involved!

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Example
3. Getting Started
4. Basic Usage
5. Detailed Usage
6. Complete Reference
7. Creating Fixtures
8. Fixture Ranges
9. Fixture Lists
10. Calling Methods
11. Specifying Constructor Arguments
12. Custom Setter
13. Optional Data
14. Handling Unique Constraints
15. Handling Relations
16. References
17. Multiple References
18. Self reference
19. Passing references to providers
20. Keep Your Fixtures Dry
21. Fixture Inheritance
22. Including files
23. Variables
24. Parameters
25. Customize Data Generation
26. Faker Data
27. Reuse generated data using objects value
28. Custom Faker Data Providers
29. Event handling with Processors
30. Third-party libraries

Other references:

• Tutorial: Using Alice in Symfony

Installation

This is installable via Composer as nelmio/alice:

composer require nelmio/alice

Example

Here is a complete example of entity declaration:

Nelmio\Entity\User:
    user{1..10}:
        username: '<username()>'
        fullname: '<firstName()> <lastName()>'
        birthDate: '<date()>'
        email: '<email()>'
        favoriteNumber: '50%? <numberBetween(1, 200)>'

Nelmio\Entity\Group:
    group1:
        name: Admins
        owner: '@user1'
        members: '<numberBetween(1, 10)>x @user*'
        created: '<dateTimeBetween("-200 days", "now")>'
        updated: '<dateTimeBetween($created, "now")>'

You can then load them easily with:

$objects = \Nelmio\Alice\Fixtures::load(__DIR__.'/fixtures.yml', $objectManager);

For more information, refer to the documentation.

Third-party libraries

• Symfony:
  • hautelook/AliceBundle
  • h4cc/AliceFixturesBundle
  • knplabs/rad-fixtures-load
• Nette
  • Zenify/DoctrineFixtures
• Zend Framework 2:
  • ma-si/aist-alice-fixtures

License

Released under the MIT License.