README

#Sheet Faker As it says on the tin, Sheet Faker allows you to efficiently create large CSV, ODS & XLSX files containing fake / test data.

Credit to the Faker package which is used to generate the data and Box's Sprout to create the files.

Usage

# Install via composer
composer create-project olsgreen/sheet-faker

cd sheet-faker

# Run
./faker generate csv

Not got composer installed? See here.

Arguments & Options

• format - CSV, ODS or XLSX
• path - Fully qualified writable path to save the file.
• --locale - The desired locale of the test data see here for a list of available locales.
• --rows - The number of rows to generate.
• --columns - A comma separated list of columns specified using Faker formatter names see here for a full list of possible data types.

Example:

./faker generate csv /data/my.csv --rows=1000 --columns=firstName,lastName,email --locale=fr_FR

The CSV file generated would be saved to /data/my.csv, have the column headers of First Name, Last Name & Email and contain 1000 rows of fake data based on French locale.

License

Released under the MIT Licence. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.