How to get a city inside a specific country with Faker

Question

I'm working with the Faker extension in Laravel 5 to populate my database.

I have "countries" and "Cities" tables so I called

$faker->country

but how can I get a city that is inside that country?

I don't want "Bogotá" to belong to "EEUU".

Answer 1

You'd make a generator and add only the provider for that country (a list of them can be found here):

$faker = new Faker\Generator();
$faker->addProvider(new Faker\Provider\en_AU\Address($faker));
$faker->state; // will give you only Australian states

If your specific need isn't covered by the available providers, you may need to create a custom provider.

Answer 2

In Laravel factory,This should do the trick.

use Faker\Provider\en_AU\Address;

    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'country' => $this->faker->country(),
            'city' => $this->faker->city(),
            'state' => Address::state(),
        ];
    }