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Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2013-09-02 · latest 2020-05-30

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  1. This is the equivalent library for PHP https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
    comment by hapidjus · 2020-05-30 · in Random person name generator
  2. …in my back pocket for when I need it. This PHP package looks nice if you need more than just names: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
    comment by tickthokk · 2016-01-22 · in Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development
  3. for PHP https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
    comment by ing33k · 2015-12-29 · in Faker.js – generate fake data in the browser and Node
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    Faker (PHP Library)
    story by dutchbrit · 2015-10-02 · 0 comments
  5. …also this one for Python: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7102268 And this one for PHP: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker (there were no HN comments on that thread) And this one for Ruby: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86018…
    comment by thaumaturgy · 2015-10-01 · in Important Security Notice from Patreon
  6. …after viewing the responses of this thread. [0]: http://www.certifiedwebninja.com/fake.json [1]: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
    comment by Killswitch · 2014-09-19 · in Fake name generator for social media
  7. This can be easily done with "Faker", see: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker It can create fake names, locations, account info, credit cards and so on...
    comment by Stormcaller · 2014-09-19 · in Fake name generator for social media
  8. …PHP before and I would love to be able to have an npm module to generate test JSON like this! [0] https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
    comment by joshstrange · 2014-05-01 · in Random JSON data generator
  9. The name looked familiar and it's indeed inspired by the Faker library for PHP: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker Another interesting library that is build on top of Faker is Alice. It allows you to define complex fixtures in .yml:…
    comment by asm89 · 2014-01-22 · in Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you
  10. …are also faker libraries for various languages, e.g. the famous https://github.com/stympy/faker , https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker and a little port in Scala (created by me) https://github.com/justwrote/scala-faker
    comment by justwrote · 2014-01-21 · in Fake Name Generator
  11. Or the PHP port which is awesome: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
    comment by rabino · 2013-09-02 · in API for creating random users in your application