I am creating user login management system with roles. I am getting error as, below when I run the command `$ php artisan db:seed`

Question

I am creating user login management system with roles. I am getting error as, below when I run the command $ php artisan db:seed

ErrorException

file_get_contents(C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\bizzcomputer\\database/dumps/your_database.sql): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

  at C:\xampp\htdocs\bizzcomputer\database\seeds\DatabaseSeeder.php:26
    22|             // Remove foreign keys for now
    23|             DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0');
    24| 
    25|             // Now we seed using our database dump of
  > 26|             DB::unprepared(file_get_contents($sql));
    27| 
    28|             // Enable foreign keys
    29|             DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1');
    30| 

1 C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\bizzcomputer\\database\\seeds\\DatabaseSeeder.php:26 file_get_contents("C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\bizzcomputer\\database/dumps/your_database.sql")

2 C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\bizzcomputer\\vendor\\laravel\\framework\\src\\Illuminate\\Container\\BoundMethod.php:37 DatabaseSeeder::run()

DatabaseSeeder

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
        // Get the databse dump we wish to use
        $sql = base_path('database/dumps/your_database.sql');

        if ($sql) {
            // Remove foreign keys for now
            DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0');

            // Now we seed using our database dump of
            DB::unprepared(file_get_contents($sql));

            // Enable foreign keys
            DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1');


            $this->call(RolesTableSeeder::class);
            $this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);
        }
    }
}

UsersTableSeeder

<?php

use App\User;
use App\Role;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class UsersTableSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
      User::truncatte();
      DB::table('role_user')->truncate();

      $adminRole = Role::where('name', 'admin')->first();
      $authorRole = Role::where('name', 'author')->first();
      $userRole = Role::where('name', 'user')->first();

      $admin = User::create([
        'name' => 'Admin User',
        'email' => 'admin@admin.com',
        'password' => Hash::make('password')
      ]);

      $author = User::create([
        'name' => 'Author User',
        'email' => 'author@author.com',
        'password' => Hash::make('password')
      ]);

     $user= User::create([
        'name' => 'Generic User',
        'email' => 'user@user.com',
        'password' => Hash::make('password')
      ]);

      $admin->roles()->attach($adminRole);
      $author->roles()->attach($authorRole);
      $user->roles()->attach($userRole);
    }
}

Answer 1

//Remove foreign keys for now
DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0');

$this->call(RolesTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(UsersTableSeeder::class);

// Enable foreign keys
DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1');
 

Answer 2

The error message pretty much says it all

ErrorException

file_get_contents(C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\bizzcomputer\\database/dumps/your_database.sql): failed to open stream: No such file or directory.

It is looking for a file called your_database.sql within the database/dumps directory within your repository.

Check that this file exists and that it has the correct permissions assigned to it