li3_populator library let you generate fake data for your Lithium models and save them in the database. It provides a Lithium's ORM/ODM adapter to Faker.

Here is an example showing how to populate 50 People data objects (instances of lithium\data\entity\Record or lithium\data\entity\Document), and save the records or documents in the database.

use faker\Factory;
use li3_populator\extensions\adapter\ORM\Lithium\Populator;

$generator = Factory::create();
$populator = new Populator($generator);
$populator->addEntity('People', 50);
$people_ids = $populator->execute();

The populator will guess the relevant data for each field based on your models schema definitions.

For a more advanced usage, take a look to Faker docs.

This library is installable via Composer as mehlah/li3_populator.

Don't forget to add the library to your application in config/bootstrap/libraries.php

Libraries::add('li3_populator');