v1.2.0

What's changed

Seeded output is now fully reproducible

Seeding Faker now reproduces the output exactly, including where inline decorations (bold, italic, code, links) land. Before this release, decoration positions used random_int(), which ignored the seed. (#8)

fake()->seed(1234);

markdown_faker()->docsPage()->render(); // identical on every run

Bring your own Faker generator

make(), the helpers and a new fluent withFaker() method accept a Faker\Generator. You can use this, for example, to add your own providers:

MarkdownFaker::make($faker)->article()->render();
markdown_faker($faker)->article()->render();
MarkdownFaker::make()->withFaker($faker)->article()->render();

Existing calls are unaffected.

Notes

• Faker's seed() seeds PHP's process-wide random generator, so seeding any Faker instance affects all of them. Seed immediately before generating the content you want to reproduce.
• Generated prose comes from Faker's Lorem provider, which no locale overrides. A locale-specific generator still produces Latin text; to change the prose, add a provider that extends Faker\Provider\Lorem with your own $wordList (see the README for an example). Overriding individual methods such as paragraph() isn't enough, because Lorem calls its own methods internally.

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0