We recommend to create your factories with the bake command.
Make sure to add:
$this->addPlugin('CakephpFixtureFactories');
in the bootstrap
method of your Application.php
. See here for more details on how to load a Plugin.
The command
bin/cake bake fixture_factory -h
will assist you. You have the possibility to bake factories for all (-a
) your models. You may also include help methods (-m
)
based on the associations defined in your models. Factories can be baked within plugin with the command -p
.