Laravel Translatable factory seeding with dynamic locales - laravel-5

Question

I want to factory seed a translatable model without hardcoding the locales.
There are two values that I have to seed, slug which is not translatable, and
title which has to be translated to all the languages from the languages table.
Here is the factory file:
$factory->define(App\Category::class, function (Faker $faker) {
$counter = 1;
$locales = Language::pluck('lang'); //returns hr,en,de
$titles = [];
foreach ($locales as $locale) {
$titles[$locale] = [
'title' => 'Title for category-' .$counter++. ' on '. $locale . ' language'
];
}
/*
$titles =
"hr" => array:1 [
"title" => "Title for category-1 on hr language"
]
"en" => array:1 [
"title" => "Title for category-2 on en language"
...
*/
return [
'slug' => 'category-'.$counter++,
$titles
];
});
This gives me an error:
Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'hr'
Query created by the factory:
insert in
to category_translations (locale, hr, en, de, test, category_id) values (0, Title for category-1 on hr language, Title
for category-2 on en language, Title for category-3 on de languag
e, Title for category-4 on test language, 20))

Answer 1

Solution for Laravel 9
<?php
namespace Database\Factories;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
/**
* #extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\Models\Attribute>
*/
class AttributeFactory extends Factory
{
/**
* Define the model's default state.
*
* #return array<string, mixed>
*/
public function definition()
{
$title = faker_translation('lastName');
return [
'title' => $title,
];
}
}
app.php
'fallback_locale' => 'en',
'faker_locale' => 'lt_LT',
'locales' => [
'lt' => 'Lietuvių',
'en' => 'English',
'ru' => 'Русский',
],
'faker_locales' => [
'lt' => 'lt_LT',
'en' => 'en_US',
'ru' => 'ru_RU',
],
helpers.php
if (! function_exists('faker_translation')) {
function faker_translation($property = 'name')
{
$fakerLocales = config('app.faker_locales');
return collect(config('app.locales'))
->map(fn ($locale, $key) => faker($fakerLocales[$key])->unique()->$property)
->toArray();
}
}
composer.json
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
"Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/"
},
"files": [
"app/helpers.php"
]
},

Answer 2

After some experimenting I've found a solution, here it is:
$factory->define(App\Category::class, function (Faker $faker) {
static $counter = 1;
$locales = Language::pluck('lang');
$titles = array('slug' => 'CATEGORY-'.$counter);
foreach ($locales as $locale) {
$titles[$locale] = [
'title' => 'Title for category-' .$counter. ' on '. $locale . ' language'
];
}
$counter++;
return $titles;
});