Get started with Symfony 6 for beginners — Part 3.1| Database, Doctrine, Entity.

This article will demonstrate how to populate a database with fake data (fake blog information). For this Open up a terminal window and run the following command:

$ composer require --dev orm-fixtures

This command will install the extra library and will create a file App\DataFixtures\AppFixtures

Open that file — src/DataFixtures/AppFixtures.php and let's create a few blog posts.

<?php
namespace App\DataFixtures;
use Doctrine\Bundle\FixturesBundle\Fixture;
use Doctrine\Persistence\ObjectManager;
use App\Entity\Blog;
class AppFixtures extends Fixture
{
public function load(ObjectManager $manager): void
{
for ($i = 1; $i < 6; $i++) {
$blog = new Blog;
$blog->setTitle('Post ' . $i);
$blog->setShortDescription('Short descr for post number ' . $i);
$blog->setBody("Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the
printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been
the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,
when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled