Foundry makes creating fixtures data fun again, via an expressive, auto-completable, on-demand fixtures system with Symfony and Doctrine:

$post = PostFactory::new() // Create the factory for Post objects
    ->published()          // Make the post in a "published" state
    ->create([             // create & persist the Post object
        'slug' => 'post-a' // This Post object only requires the slug field - all other fields are random data
    ])
;

The factories can be used inside DoctrineFixturesBundle to load fixtures or inside your tests, where it has even more features.

Foundry supports doctrine/orm (with doctrine/doctrine-bundle), doctrine/mongodb-odm (with doctrine/mongodb-odm-bundle) or a combination of these.

Want to watch a screencast 🎥 about it? Check out https://symfonycasts.com/foundry

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The test suite of this library needs one or more databases, then it comes with a docker compose configuration.

You can start the containers and run the test suite:

# start the container
$ docker compose up --detach

# install dependencies
$ composer update

# run test suite with all available permutations
$ composer test

# run only one permutation
$ vendor/bin/phpunit

# run test suite with dama/doctrine-test-bundle
$ vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.dama.xml.dist

# run test suite with postgreSQL instead of MySQL
$ DATABASE_URL="postgresql://zenstruck:[email protected]:5433/zenstruck_foundry?serverVersion=15" vendor/bin/phpunit

You can override default environment variables by creating a .env.local file, to easily enable permutations:

# .env.local
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://zenstruck:[email protected]:5433/zenstruck_foundry?serverVersion=15"

# run test suite with postgreSQL
$ vendor/bin/phpunit

The .env.local file can also be used to override the port of the database containers, if it does not meet your local requirements. You'll also need to override docker compose configuration:

Here is an example to use MySQL on port 3308:

# docker-compose.override.yml
version: '3.9'

services:
    mysql:
        ports:
            - "3308:3306"

# .env.local
DATABASE_URL="mysql://root:[email protected]:3308/foundry_test?serverVersion=5.7.42"

The AAA style of testing was first introduced to me by Adam Wathan's excellent Test Driven Laravel Course. The inspiration for this libraries API comes from Laravel factories and christophrumpel/laravel-factories-reloaded.