Test data generator for PHP - Entities and relations
In the previous lesson, Test data generator for PHP - Building a wrapper, we finished its core and implemented a database wrapper. In today's tutorial, we're going to finish the script.
Creating other entities
We could create a LastName entity just like we did with the FirstName entity. However, we'll focus on creating some more advanced entities.
Let's create a class which will implement the IRandomizableItem interface. An email will be inserted both into the definition and the table. The SQL email type will be varchar(255).
class Email implements IRandomizableItem
{
public $insertToDefinition = true;
public $insertToTable = true;
function randomValue()
{
}
function columnSqlType()
{
return "varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_general_ci";
}
}
We'll use domains in the email addresses. Now, create a
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