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Unique initials from first name & last name in Laravel Model Factory
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<?php | |
/** @var \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factory $factory */ | |
use App\User; | |
use Illuminate\Support\Str; | |
use Faker\Generator as Faker; | |
/* | |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Model Factories | |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| | |
| This directory should contain each of the model factory definitions for | |
| your application. Factories provide a convenient way to generate new | |
| model instances for testing / seeding your application's database. | |
| | |
*/ | |
$factory->define(User::class, function (Faker $faker) { | |
static $existingInitials; | |
$existingInitials = $existingInitials ?: User::pluck('initials')->toArray(); | |
$first_name = $faker->firstName; | |
$last_name = $faker->lastName; | |
$suffix = 0; | |
do { | |
$safeLastName = Str::ascii($last_name); | |
$initials = strtoupper(Str::ascii($first_name)[0]); | |
for ($i = 0; $i <= $suffix; $i++) { | |
if (! isset($safeLastName[$i])) { | |
$initials .= 'X'; | |
continue; | |
} | |
$character = $safeLastName[$i]; | |
if (in_array($character, [' ', '-', '\'', ''])) { | |
continue; | |
} | |
$initials .= strtoupper($character); | |
} | |
$suffix++; | |
} while (in_array($initials, $existingInitials)); | |
$existingInitials[] = $initials; | |
return [ | |
'initials' => $initials, | |
'first_name' => $first_name, | |
'last_name' => $last_name, | |
'email' => $faker->unique()->safeEmail, | |
'password' => '$2y$10$92IXUNpkjO0rOQ5byMi.Ye4oKoEa3Ro9llC/.og/at2.uheWG/igi', // password | |
'remember_token' => Str::random(10), | |
]; | |
}); |
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