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Faker

Faker is a PHP port of a Ruby port of Data::Faker from Perl.

It's a convoluted path, but you're the beneficiary of a simple way to generate fake data for your PHP 5.3 project.

Usage is fairly straightforward:

echo \Faker\Name::name();    // "Leeroy Jenkins"

There are a few more to choose from:

\Faker\Address::address();
\Faker\Address::streetName();
\Faker\Address::streetAddress($includeSecondary = false);
\Faker\Address::city();
\Faker\Address::state();
\Faker\Address::stateAbbr();
\Faker\Address::zipCode();
\Faker\Address::zip();
\Faker\Address::postcode();
\Faker\Address::cityStateZip();
\Faker\Address::country();

\Faker\Company::name();
\Faker\Company::suffix();
\Faker\Company::catchPhrase();
\Faker\Company::bs();

\Faker\DateTime::timestamp();
\Faker\DateTime::date($format = null);
\Faker\DateTime::dateFormat();
\Faker\DateTime::time($format = null);
\Faker\DateTime::timeFormat();
\Faker\DateTime::dateTime($format = null);
\Faker\DateTime::dateTimeFormat();
\Faker\DateTime::month();
\Faker\DateTime::monthAbbr();
\Faker\DateTime::weekday();
\Faker\DateTime::weekdayAbbr();

\Faker\Internet::email($name = null);
\Faker\Internet::freeEmail($name = null);
\Faker\Internet::safeEmail($name = null);
\Faker\Internet::userName($name = null);
\Faker\Internet::domainName();
\Faker\Internet::safeDomainName();
\Faker\Internet::domainWord();
\Faker\Internet::domainSuffix();
\Faker\Internet::ipv4Address();
\Faker\Internet::slug($str = null, $glue = array('.', '-', '_'));

\Faker\Lorem::word();
\Faker\Lorem::words($num = 3);
\Faker\Lorem::sentence($wordCount = 4);
\Faker\Lorem::sentences($sentenceCount = 3);
\Faker\Lorem::paragraph($sentenceCount = 3);
\Faker\Lorem::paragraphs($paragraphCount = 3);

\Faker\Name::name();
\Faker\Name::firstName();
\Faker\Name::lastName();
\Faker\Name::prefix();
\Faker\Name::suffix();

\Faker\PhoneNumber::phoneNumber();
\Faker\PhoneNumber::safePhoneNumber();

Yeah,

... it's an entire library made up of static methods. Just to bug Bulat :)