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I have a Laravel table for hits. I want to generate a lot of test data to test some charts based on the hit location, so I created a factory like this:

<?php



use CarbonCarbon;

use FakerGenerator as Faker;



$factory->define(AppHit::class, function (Faker $faker) {

    $date = Carbon::parse($faker->dateTimeBetween("-2 months", "now")->format('Y-m-d'));

    $faker->seed(rand());



    return [

        'latitude' => '',

        'longitude' => '',

        'country' => 'US',

        'state' => '',

        'city' => '',

        'created_at' => $date,

        'updated_at' => $date,

    ];

});

Then in the HitsTableSeeder it does this:

<?php



use IlluminateDatabaseSeeder;



class HitsTableSeeder extends Seeder

{

    /**

     * Run the database seeds.

     *

     * @return void

     */

    public function run()

    {

        $i = 0;



        while ($i <= 25000) {

            factory(AppHit::class)->create(

                [

                    'latitude' => $faker->latitude,

                    'longitude' => $faker->longitude,

                    'country' => 'US',

                    'state' => $faker->state,

                    'city' => $faker->city,

                ]

            );

            $i++;

        }

    }

}

It always returns the same data:

-[ RECORD 1 ]------+---------------------------

id                 | 1

latitude           | 41.31

longitude          | -72.92

country            | US

state              | CT

city               | New Haven

-[ RECORD 2 ]------+---------------------------

id                 | 2

latitude           | 41.31

longitude          | -72.92

country            | US

state              | CT

city               | New Haven

-[ RECORD 3 ]------+---------------------------

id                 | 3

latitude           | 41.31

longitude          | -72.92

country            | US

state              | CT

city               | New Haven

This happens regardless of whether I try to override the factory's values in the table seeder or write the data directly in the factory and don't try to override the value in the seeder.

How can I get truly random data?

NOTE: I'm accepting @Erick Patrick's answer because he's correct, but the method I had been using is correct as well. The issue turned out to be that the Hit model had an event attached to geocode the hit before saving it-- and for some reason the geocoder always returned this same location for the faked data, presumably because it couldn't be found!

Modify the returned array in your factory, like this:

$factory->define(AppHit::class, function (Faker $faker) {

    $date = Carbon::parse($faker->dateTimeBetween("-2 months", "now")->format('Y-m-d'));

    $faker->seed(rand());



    return [

        'latitude' => $faker->latitude($min = -90, $max = 90),   

        'longitude' => $faker->longitude($min = -180, $max = 180),

        'country' => $faker->countryCode,

        'state' => $faker->stateAbbr,

        'city' => $faker->country,

        'created_at' => $date,

        'updated_at' => $date,

    ];

});

and your HitsTableSeeder

public function run()

{

    factory(AppHit::class, 2500)->create();

}