From 7f6f55e7689a3af8e0ebe977ba78d27644f17c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Wigger <james@rootstudio.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:50:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added faker package to development libraries for mocking up
 content

---
 composer.json |  3 +++
 helpers.php   | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index f10f067..6049aee 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -21,5 +21,8 @@
         "files": [
             "helpers.php"
         ]
+    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.6"
     }
 }
diff --git a/helpers.php b/helpers.php
index f8ffe63..1c9ddb5 100644
--- a/helpers.php
+++ b/helpers.php
@@ -142,3 +142,18 @@ function base_layout_has($key)
         return false;
     }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new faker instance for mocking content
+ *
+ * @return Faker\Generator
+ */
+if(!function_exists('base_faker_factory')) {
+    function base_faker_factory() {
+        if(!class_exists('Faker\Factory')) {
+            throw new Exception('Faker library is not installed - are you running in production?');
+        }
+
+        return Faker\Factory::create();
+    }
+}