I am a Laravel newbie. I want to seed my database. When I run the seed command I get an exception
[Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\MassAssignmentException]
username
db:seed [--class[="..."]] [--database[="..."]]
What am I doing wrong. The command I use is:
php artisan db:seed --class="UsersTableSeeder"
My seed class is as follows:
class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder {
public function run()
{
User::truncate();
User::create([
'username' => 'PaulSheer',
'email' => 'psheer@rute.co.za',
'password' => '45678'
]);
User::create([
'username' => 'Stevo',
'email' => 'steve@rute.co.za',
'password' => '45678'
]);
}
}
Best Answer
Read this section of Laravel doc : http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#mass-assignment
Laravel provides by default a protection against mass assignment security issues. That's why you have to manually define which fields could be "mass assigned" :
Warning : be careful when you allow the mass assignment of critical fields like
password
orrole
. It could lead to a security issue because users could be able to update this fields values when you don't want to.