Bake command

Generate factory classes from your existing schema. Recommended over hand-writing them.

Loading the plugin

In src/Application.php:

$this->addPlugin('CakephpFixtureFactories');

See the cookbook for how to load a plugin.

Usage

bin/cake bake fixture_factory -h

shows all options. Common patterns:

# One factory at a time
bin/cake bake fixture_factory Articles

# All models in your app
bin/cake bake fixture_factory -a

# Include association helpers (->withAuthors(), ->withCountry(), …)
bin/cake bake fixture_factory Articles -m

# Bake into a plugin's namespace
bin/cake bake fixture_factory Articles -p MyPlugin

Options

Flag	Effect
-a	Bake every model in the app
-m	Add with…() helpers based on associations
-p Plugin	Bake into a plugin's namespace
-h	Show all available options

Customizing the generated code

Two configuration keys influence what bake writes:

• defaultDataMap — map column types to generator method calls.
• columnPatterns — map column-name regexes to generator method calls.

Both let you teach bake what phone, zip, email, etc. should look like in your domain. See the Configuration Reference.

// config/app.php
'FixtureFactories' => [
    'columnPatterns' => [
        '/^phone/' => '$generator->phoneNumber()',
        '/^zip/'   => '$generator->postcode()',
    ],
],

After regenerating, fields named phone_* and zip_* will be filled with the matching generator method instead of a generic string.