avatar

@davy_yg you can use image method to download the file and save it to your public/avatar directory:

$faker->image('public/avatar', 640, 480, null, false);

https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker/blob/master/src/Faker/Provider/Image.php#L58

Then, how to get the file path?

ContactFactory.php

return [
    //
    'avatar' => $faker->gravatarUrl(),
    'first_name' => $faker->text(10),
    'last_name' => $faker->text(10),
    'address' => $faker->address(10),
    'city' => $faker->city(10),
    'zip' => $faker->postcode(10),
    'country' => $faker->country(10),
    'email' => $faker->email(10),
    'phone' => $faker->numberBetween($min = 100000, $max = 999999) ,
    'note' => $faker->text(10),
    'group_id' => $faker->numberBetween($min = 1, $max = 3),
    'created_at' => $faker->dateTime()
];

@davy_yg 'avatar' => $faker->image('public/avatar', 640, 480, null, false),.

@davy_yg did you even click the link? The very first line tells you

Download a remote random image to disk and return its location

E:\xampp72\htdocs\niche_stack>php artisan db:seed --class=ContactTableSeeder

InvalidArgumentException : Cannot write to directory "public/avatar"

Is this public/avatar directory a symlink? or storage/app/public/avatar ?

@davy_yg it should probably be public/storage/avatar.

I am pretty sure it is /public/avatar

But you can use the storage_path helper

'avatar' => $faker->image(storage_path('app/public/avatar'), 640, 480, null, false),

'avatar' => $faker->image(storage_path('app/public/avatar'), 210, 210, null, false),

all the avatar are 0. and there is no avatar image in storage/app/public/avatar

@davy_yg do you tried $faker->image('public/storage/avatar', 210, 210, null, false)?

Maybe it is just me, but it seems the image page is really really slow ?

This is what faker calls http://lorempixel.com/640/480/?12345

@sinnbeck yeah, sometimes it doesn't respond at all. That's why I've switched to using local images instead of relying on the network.

I would imagine that could be the problem. Perhaps consider using a static image on the machine instead :)

I tried several times and it only works for 1 contact and also there is a long time lag on processing 3 contacts.

I don't think this is a good idea since I will have to test my program by using 10.000 data. If I have to download all the pictures I think it's gonna crash. It does not works on 3 data - except for 1 row after several times trying.

I have to use this: https://github.com/ottaviano/faker-gravatar

temporarily the only problem is if I upload a local image the image won't show off.

@davy_yg then download n images, name them from 1 to n, place it to for example tests/Support/Files/Avatars, update your factory to something like that:

'avatar' => function() {
   $img = rand(1, 30) . '.jpg';

   $path = 'public/storage/avatars/' . $img;

   Storage::copy('tests/Support/Files/Avatars/' . $img, $path);

   return $path;
}