Generating 15,000 fake users for local development

stdout.bash

15,000 profiles created

real	0m34.258s
user	0m23.657s
sys	0m5.092s

UsersCommand.php

<?php

namespace Nolimits\Dummy\Commands;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;

class UsersCommand extends Command
{
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this
            ->setName('dummy:users')
            ->setDescription('Generate dummy users')
            ->addOption(
                'seed',
                null,
                InputOption::VALUE_OPTIONAL,
                'Passing a seed will force the same generation of users each time.'
            )
        ;
    }

    protected function batchSize()
    {
        return $this->total();
    }

    protected function total()
    {
        return 15000;
    }

    protected function getSilex()
    {
        return $this->getHelperSet()->get('app')->getSilex();
    }

    protected function entityManager()
    {
        $silex = $this->getSilex();
        return $silex['orm.em'];
    }

    protected function fakerGenerator()
    {
        $silex = $this->getSilex();
        return $silex['faker'];
    }

    protected function userEntity()
    {
        return new \Nolimits\Users\Entities\UsersEntity;
    }

    protected function userData($generator)
    {
        return array(
            'username'                => $generator->firstName,
            'email'                   => $generator->safeEmail,
            'password'                => $generator->safeEmail,
            'logins'                  => $generator->randomDigit,
            'last_login'              => $generator->unixTime,
            'ip_address'              => sprintf('%u\n', ip2long($generator->ipv4)),
            'score'                   => $generator->randomDigit,
            'registration_date'       => $generator->unixTime,
            'registration_ip_address' => sprintf('%u\n', ip2long($generator->ipv4)),
        );
    }

    protected function counter($current, $total)
    {
        $current = str_pad($current, strlen($total));

        return "$current/$total";
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $generator = $this->fakerGenerator();

        if ($seed = $input->getOption('seed'))
        {
            $generator->seed($seed);
        }

        for($i = 1; $i <= $this->total(); $i++)
        {
            $data = $this->userData($generator);

            $output->write("Profile [".$this->counter($i, $this->total())."][".$data['username']."]\033[K\r");

            $user = $this->userEntity();
            $user->exchangeArray($data);
            $this->entityManager()->persist($user);

            if ($i % $this->batchSize() === 0)
            {
                $this->entityManager()->flush();
                $this->entityManager()->clear();
            }
        }

        $output->writeln("\033[K\r<info>".number_format($this->total()).' profiles created</info>');
    }

}