CakePHP Fixture FactoriesWrite and run your tests faster.

Build expressive test fixtures with associations, scenarios, and pluggable data generators — for CakePHP and beyond.

Faster Tests, Less Boilerplate

Skip $fixtures arrays. The Factory Transaction Strategy wraps each test, rolls back automatically, and resets generator state.

Pick Faker (mature, full locales) or DummyGenerator (lean, PHP 8.3+, native enums). Or plug in your own.

One fluent expression builds the whole object graph — Articles → Authors → Address → City → Country, persisted in one go.

Generate factories from your schema with smart, configurable type guessing per column name and type.

Encapsulate complex test data — "10 Australian authors", "a checkout in progress" — and load them in any test.

Strict generic type annotations across the codebase. Your factories pick up types correctly in any IDE.

php

ArticleFactory::make(5)
    ->with('Authors[3].Address.City.Country')
    ->persistEntities();

Five articles, each with three authors, each with an address, city and country — persisted in one expression.

bash

composer require --dev dereuromark/cakephp-fixture-factories

Then load the plugin and configure the fixture strategy. See Setup for full instructions.

This is a maintained fork of vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories. The main breaking change is the generator abstraction — see the short migration guide.