Can I with fzaninotto/Faker generate doc / xls files? - faker

Question

Reading docs for laravel 9 site at
https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
I did not find if there is a way to generate doc(microsoft word) / xls(microsoft excel) files with this library ?
Maybe some other library ?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Faker is using to generate simple data like sentences, email, phone etc. But you can use, for example maatwebsite/excel to make xlsx filling it with faker.
The simplest way to create doc file is to make html file with doc extension.
Update:
Keep in mind that maatwebsite/excel was built for Laravel framework, but there are other packages witch can be used independent from frameworks, for example XLSWriter
maatwebsite/excel
Laravel's factory to make User model
class UserFactory extends Factory
{
protected $model = User::class;
public function definition()
{
return [
'login' => '0'.$this->faker->numberBetween(70000000000, 80000000000),
'email' => $this->faker->unique()->safeEmail,
'lastname' => $this->faker->lastName,
'firstname' => $this->faker->firstNameMale,
'phone' => $this->faker->phoneNumber,
];
}
}
maatwebsite's export class (this one uses a collection as source)
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\FromCollection;
class UsersExport implements FromCollection
{
private $collection;
public function __construct($collection)
{
$this->collection = $collection;
}
public function collection()
{
return $this->collection;
}
}
Make xlsx file with 10 users uses laravel's seeder
class XlsSeeder extends Seeder
{
public function run()
{
$users = User::factory()
->count(10)
->make();
Excel::store(new UsersExport($users), 'users.xlsx');
}
}
XLSWriter
Wherever you need to create xlsx, you can write something like:
for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
$users[] = [
$faker->numberBetween(70000000000, 80000000000),
$faker->unique()->safeEmail,
$faker->lastName,
$faker->firstName,
$faker->phoneNumber,
];
}
$fileObject = new \Vtiful\Kernel\Excel([
'path' => './tests'
]);
$file = $fileObject->fileName('users.xlsx', 'sheet_one')
->header(['login', 'email', 'lastname', 'firstname', 'phone'])
->data($users);
$file->output();