Make it easier to change the locale of Faker

[garygreen]

At the moment Faker always defaults the locale to US. It would be nice if there was some kind of way of changing it through a config/env option.

I know you can change it by completely overriding the way the faker generator singleton is registered with something like the below, but it's a bit long-winded and would be easier to change through a simple env('FAKER_LOCALE') option.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Faker\Factory as FakerFactory;
use Faker\Generator as FakerGenerator;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        $this->app->singleton(FakerGenerator::class, function () {
          return FakerFactory::create('en_GB');
        });
    }
}

[RemiCollin]

I agree, plus it's very easy to implement with a config key.

More and more we're using Faker & Factories as an easy way to quickly throw an API for prototyping frontend, and I'm pretty sure this is a pretty common use case, and we need to set the localization for this.

[drbyte]

I've long wished this was built in already too.

I've been doing it this way, which pulls in the app.locale config setting.

       // tell Faker to use the app's primary locale
        $this->app->singleton(\Faker\Generator::class, function () {
            return \Faker\Factory::create(config('app.locale'));
        });

[themsaid]

Next patch you'll be able to set a faker locale in config/app.php using a faker_locale config key.

https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/17895/files

[garygreen]

Thanks for update @themsaid much appreciated. 😄

[themsaid]

❤️

[jbrooksuk]

@themsaid I feel like that should go into a new testing.php or something. Seems weird to be in the main app config?

[garygreen]

Not really specifically related to testing though - I use faker in model factories and seeders to seed fake data into application for demo purposes, etc. It would be nice if it could just use app.locale setting but faker wants it in a slightly different format. Dunno, doesn't make much difference to me. Easy enough to configure with faker_locale, if you don't want it in your config then don't worry, it defaults to US.

[fendis0709]

Really helpful.

I only need to add variable
'faker_locale' = 'id_ID'
inside of my config/app.php

Or, if I want to make them more customization, just add a new varible FAKER_LOCALE in env.php and call it in the config 'fakse_locale' = env('FAKER_LOCALE', 'id_ID).

PS : The second parameter is default value.

[bennyatc]

@fendiseptiawan0709 GREAT.
Thanks.