In my laravel 9 application, I was trying to create the following faker.

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;

/**
 * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\Models\Model>
 */
class MemberFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            "firstname" => $this->faker->name(),
            "lastname" => $this->faker->name(),
            "dateofbirth" => $this->faker->date('YYYY-MM-DD'),
            "summary" => $this->faker->words(100),
            "division_name" => $this->faker->name()
        ];
    }
}

but every time when I try to seed the data, I get the following error,

CodePudding user response：

• word // 'aut'
• words($nb = 3, $asText = false) // array('porro', 'sed', 'magni')
words return an array
  If you want to use words as text you need to put 2^nd param is true

CodePudding user response：

the issue is not on the factory code as far as Im concerned, look at the foreach function, you're trying to concat an array to the $result with .= , which is not possible, you should implode the array first before doing so.

$result .= (implode(' ', array_shift($replace)) ?? $result).$segment;

assuming $result is a string, and $segment is also a string