srokap/data_generator

Elgg plugin, that allows to fill-up Elgg installation with a lot of fake data.

Data Generator

Elgg plugin that allows to fill-up your installation with a lot of fake data. It's meant for benchmarking your installation on high volumes of data. Do not use on production sites!, _(*1)

Usage

For smaller amounts of data, you may use page in admin panel. Go to Develop -> Data Generator in admin panel., _(*2)

For large amount of data, you need to use command line interface. To do so, go to plugin directory (mod/data_generator) and call php cli_run.php with proper parameters. To see available parameters, run php cli_run.php --help. It will output following information:, _(*3)

Usage: cli_run.php [OPTIONS]

Options are:
-a N, --amount N    Sets N as amount of items to generate. Required.

-p P, --profile P   Sets P as chosen profile that determines type of items
            to generate. Run without value to get list of possible
            values. Required.

-l L, --locale L    Sets L as localization of generated content. Some
            of valid options may not be fully supported. Run
            without value to get list of possible values. Required.

-h, --help      Outputs this help info.

Please consider locales other than en_* as experimental., _(*4)

Profiles

Currently implemented data generation scenarios (called "profiles") are:, _(*5)

• newUserEntity - generates new ElggUser entities with filled profile data as in vanilla Elgg install
• usersRelationshipFriend - creates friend relationsips between existing ElggUser entities
• newBlogEntity - generates new ElggBlog entities in various possible states that may be produced by bundled blog plugin
• blogAnnotationRevision - adds revision annotations to existing ElggBlog entities
• blogAnnotationComment - adds comment annotations to existing ElggBlog entities (that won't work correctly on elgg 1.9 that migrated comments from annotations to entities)

Known issues

• Cyrylic usernames are not handled by the core and may not work correctly with common plugins. Use at your own risk.