{"id":455,"date":"2015-02-24T22:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-06-28T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:46:57","slug":"seed-database-laravel-5-without-reflectionexception-class-____-exist-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/seed-database-laravel-5-without-reflectionexception-class-____-exist-error\/","title":{"rendered":"How to seed a database in Laravel 5 (without the &#8220;[ReflectionException] Class ____ does not exist&#8221; error)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Database seeding in Laravel is pretty awesome. It had me pondering recently what the best practice is for seeding a database with an admin user (or users). During my development I run into a slight issue. I felt like the Laravel docs didn&#8217;t fully explain the process, so I&#8217;m going to show you my solution below.<\/p>\n<p>Originally I was adding my seed class to the DatabaseSeeder.php file simply as an extra class. However, this is wrong. New seed classes need to go into their own file. <strong>I repeat; your own new seed classes need to go into their own file.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say I&#8217;m using the amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Zizaco\/entrust\/tree\/laravel-5\" target=\"_blank\">Entrust<\/a> package and want to seed my database with one admin user.\u00a0First you need to create a new seed class file in the same directory as DatabaseSeeder.php. For example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n\r\n\/App\r\n\r\n\/Database\r\n\r\n\/Database\/Seeds\r\n\r\n\/Database\/Seeds\/DatabaseSeeder.php\r\n\r\n\/Database\/Seeds\/AdminUserSeeder.php\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then you need to call this class from within DatabaseSeeder.php:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n\r\nclass DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder {\r\n\r\npublic function run()\r\n{\r\nModel::unguard();\r\n\r\n$this-&amp;gt;call('AdminUserSeeder');\r\n}\r\n\r\n}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what my AdminUserSeeder.php class looks like:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;?php\r\n\r\nuse Illuminate\\Database\\Seeder;\r\nuse Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model;\r\n\r\nuse Zizaco\\Entrust\\EntrustRole;\r\nuse Zizaco\\Entrust\\EntrustPermission;\r\nuse Zizaco\\Entrust\\HasRole;\r\nuse App\\Models\\User;\r\n\r\nclass AdminUserSeeder extends Seeder {\r\npublic function run()\r\n{\r\nRole::firstOrCreate([\r\n'name' =&amp;gt; 'admin_role_name',\r\n'display_name' =&amp;gt; 'Super Admin',\r\n'description' =&amp;gt; 'The highest level of admin-ness',\r\n]);\r\n\r\n$superadmin = Role::where('name','=','admin_role_name')-&amp;gt;first();\r\n$shrek = User::where('username','=','shrek77')-&amp;gt;first();\r\n\r\nif (!$shrek-&amp;gt;hasRole('admin_role_name')) {\r\n$joe-&amp;gt;attachRole( $superadmin-&amp;gt;id );\r\n}\r\n\r\n$this-&amp;gt;command-&amp;gt;info('Admin user seeded :-)');\r\n}\r\n}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Dont&#8217; forget that in Laravel 5 you&#8217;ll need to add all the &#8216;use&#8217; statement at the start of the file to prevent the &#8220;Class not found&#8221; errors.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, make sure you make full use of &#8220;Command-&gt;info&#8221; to echo into the terminal some info about the success\u00a0of the seed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, when I run:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nphp artisan db:seed --class=AdminUserSeeder\r\n<\/pre>\n<p class=\"p1\">My database gets seeded, and I get a nice little message back telling me what&#8217;s happened.\u00a0I also\u00a0start\u00a0searching more details about different\u00a0databases including\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/resources\/why-nosql\">NoSQL database<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Database seeding in Laravel is pretty awesome. 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