Now that we have a database table for our listings, let's seed it with the mock data. To do so we're going to have to do the following:
- Load the
database/data.jsonfile - Parse the file
- Insert the data into the listings table
Laravel includes a seeder class that we can extend called Seeder. Use this Artisan command to implement it:
$ php artisan make:seeder ListingsTableSeederWhen we run the seeder, any code in the run method is executed.
database/ListingsTableSeeder.php:
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
class ListingsTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
public function run()
{
//
}
}Laravel provides a File facade that allows us to open files from disk as simply as File::get($path). To get the full path to our mock data file we can use the base_path() helper function, which returns the path to the root of our application directory as a string.
It's then trivial to convert this JSON file to a PHP array using the built-in json_decode...