laravel4cookbook

E-Commerce 226
We’re going to use Faker for populating our database tables (through seeders) so we have a fresh set
of data to use each time we migrate our database objects.
To install Faker; add another Composer dependency:
1 "require" : {
2 "fzaninotto/faker" : "dev-master"
3 }
.
This was extracted from composer.json.
Remember to make this dependency behave nicely with the others in composer.json. A simple
composer update should take us the rest of the way to being able to use DOMPDF, Stripe and Faker
in our application.
Creating Database Objects
For our online shop; we’re going to need categories for products to be sorted into, products and
accounts. We’ll also need orders and order items, to track which items have been sold.
Creating Migrations
We listed five migrations, which we need to create. Fire up a terminal window and use the following
command to create them:
1 php artisan migrate:make CreateCategoryTable
.
You can repeat this process five times, or you can use the first as a copy-and-paste template for the
remaining four migrations.
After a bit of modification; I have the following migrations: