Laravel 8: Call to undefined function factory()

Question

I want to use some fake data with Factory so at my ArticleFactory I added this:

public function definition()
    {
        return [
            'title' => $faker->text(50),
            'slug' => $faker->slug(),
            'body' => $faker->paragraph(rand(5,20)),
        ];
    }

And then at web.php I added this:

use App\Models\Article;
Route::get('/', function () {
    factory(Article::class,10)->create();
});

But now I get this error:

Error Call to undefined function factory()

So what's going wrong here? How can I fix it?

Answer 1

In Laravel 8, the factory helper is no longer available. Your Thread model class should use HasFactory trait, then you can use your factory.

Change to :

\App\Models\Article::factory()->count(10)->create();

However, if you prefer to use the Laravel 7.x style factories, you can use the package laravel/legacy-factories You may install it with composer:

composer require laravel/legacy-factories