Fake-this is a boilerplate for the PHP Faker library for anonymizing your production dataset to be distributed and used for testing. It is discussed further at Chef-gm.

Note: Backup your data before running!

####Dependencies

• git
• php
• composer
• mysql client

How to use

Setup

$ git clone https://github.com/Jsnrkd/faker-this
$ cd faker-this
$ composer install

Code your logic

$ nano fake.php

Anonymize

$ php fake.php <host> <mysql_user> <password> <dbPrefix>

Distribute

$ mysqldump -u [user] -p[password] --all-databases | gzip > fake_data.sql.gz

Import

$ gunzip < fake_data.sql.gz | mysql -u [user] -p[password]

Keep configured project for later

$ rm -R .git
$ git init
$ git add --all
$ git commit -am 'Initial commit of faker utility.'

Push remotely if desired.