Is it possible to manually register a user (with artisan?) rather than via the auth registration page?
I only need a handful of user accounts and wondered if there's a way to create these without having to set up the registration controllers and views.
I think you want to do this once-off, so there is no need for something fancy like creating an Artisan command etc. I would suggest to simply use php artisan tinker (great tool!) and add the following commands per user:
$user = new App\User();
$user->password = Hash::make('the-password-of-choice');
$user->email = 'the-email@example.com';
$user->name = 'My Name';
$user->save();
This is an old post, but if anyone wants to do it with command line, in Laravel 5.*, this is an easy way:
php artisan tinker
then type (replace with your data):
DB::table('users')->insert(['name'=>'MyUsername','email'=>'thisis@myemail.com','password'=>Hash::make('123456')])
Yes, the best option is to create a seeder, so you can always reuse it.
For example, this is my UserTableSeeder:
class UserTableSeeder extends Seeder {
public function run() {
if(env('APP_ENV') != 'production')
{
$password = Hash::make('secret');
for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++)
{
$users[] = [
'email' => 'user'. $i .'@myapp.com',
'password' => $password
];
}
User::insert($users);
}
}
After you create this seeder, you must run composer dumpautoload, and then in your database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php add the following:
class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
/**
* Run the database seeds.
*
* @return void
*/
public function run()
{
Model::unguard();
$this->call('UserTableSeeder');
}
}
Now you can finally use php artisan db:seed --class=UserTableSeeder every time you need to insert users in the table.
Yes, you can easily write a database seeder and seed your users that way.
You can use Model Factories to generate a couple of user account to work it. Writing a seeder will also get the job done.
