Fake Data

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.2.1

This release fixes a PDO error during the meta update when trying to seed more than 65k records at once

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.3.0

Added compatibility with Flarum 1.3 new post numbering logic.

This release as well as future releases will only work on Flarum 1.3+

It's a complete coincidence that the Flarum version and extension version match 😇

jdoe

Folks, can I flush the data with this plugin after testing is done?

clarkwinkelmann

jdoe no.

clarkwinkelmann There is no way to mass delete the generated data.

If you only created discussions, you could use Mass Actions to disable multiple discussions at once.

If you need to do tests on production data, you should create a backup first, do the tests on a copy and discard the copy once finished.

clarkwinkelmann

Version 1.4.0

Added reply seed button to blog article pages if v17development/flarum-blog is enabled.

MPA

Please don't have any ideas of using ChatGPT to create fake discussions... 🙂

clarkwinkelmann

MPA unless there's a free offline library that can be used, it's definitely not something I would add to this extension.

The goal isn't really to generate human-like content, but just to stress test Flarum.

I do plan to add more formatting to the randomly generated messages in future updates, but there's not really a need for AI for this purpose.

MPA

clarkwinkelmann

Agree, but there's the "fake it till you make it", so maybe this could be useful to quick start a forum. No one want to post on an empty forum.

clarkwinkelmann

MPA that's really not the use case of this extension. It's not meant for production forums, only to create test data for development and stress testing.

Using this extension in production could result in fake data being attributed to real users which wouldn't be good.

MPA

clarkwinkelmann Fake data can't be attributed to real users if a forum does not have any real users yet.

d351r3d

clarkwinkelmann is this extension still alive and being worked on and is it able to be used with the current iteration of Flarum? I get that this is necroposting but 🤷🏻‍♂️.

clarkwinkelmann

d351r3d yes it's still fully compatible. We always try to add the "Incompatible" tag to extension discussions on this forum if an extension cannot be installed on the latest Flarum.

d351r3d

clarkwinkelmann Right on. I can't wait to see how it fares on a dumpy shared host. Thanks for making it.

Harrydi2006

So can I export the generated account name and password with one click

clarkwinkelmann

Harrydi2006 my extension does not provide any export feature. The users created are "real" Flarum users in the database, if you dump the users table they will be included. You cannot dump the clear text password though since it's hashed.

PARADOXP

It's making posts in a language that I don't know how to change the language of the data to English

That it will make data in English

clarkwinkelmann

PARADOXP that's not an option. The library used to generate random text uses Lorem ipsum, the most common form of fake text.

The FakerPHP library has locale-specific generators for proper names, phone numbers etc, but I don't think it has such a thing to generate English sentences. You would have to fork the extension and use a different library to generate English text.

What are you trying to test by using English? The Latin text isn't valid, it's complete garbage. Using English with the same approach would just be even more confusing since it wouldn't produce valid sentences.

mensan1

clarkwinkelmann May I ask how to change the generated comments to Chinese font? Can I preset the comment keywords by myself?

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