Thank you for proposing this change @theofidry. However, there are also bundles to integrate faker (like https://github.com/willdurand/BazingaFakerBundle). Should we mention them here too?

Obviously we can't mention them all:

• HautelookAliceBundle
• h4cc/AliceFixturesBundle
• KnpLabs/rad-fixtures-load
• LafourchetteFixturesBundle
• DoctrineFixturesBundle

Plus the bundles for Faker... However the three most popular in the order is DoctrineFixturesBundle (no longer active), HautelookAliceBundle and BazingaFakerBundle.

But that's just a proposal, if you feel it wouldn't be fair to other bundles well at least I would have tried :)

👍 for mentioning them all but don't forget that when there is too much choices, people get lost :-). Maybe it would be useful to suggest one/two well proofed library.

The issue there is that there is yet to be a consensus on the choice of the bundle. To me they all look redundant and I've been a long time frustrated by how things were not moving before rewriting HautelookAliceBundle.

DoctrineFixturesBundle does not integrate Alice nor Faker (you can use them inside your doctrine fixtures though)

@stof true, but it was more about having advanced fixtures rather than actually using Alice and Faker.

I like the idea of mentioning only one bundle to integrate Alice/Faker. We should choose the best one according to our criteria. If we can't reach an agreement, let's mention two bundles.

I'd even reword the original message. Instead this:

Consider using `Faker`_, `Alice`_ or `HautelookAliceBundle`_ libraries to generate
real-looking data [...]

We could say something like:

Consider using `HautelookAliceBundle`_ to generate real-looking data for your fixtures.
This bundle integrates the `Faker`_ and `Alice`_ libraries [...]

Hi @theofidry, thanks for starting this pull request. I've taken your commit and applied @javiereguiluz's comment and put both commits in a new PR: #6051 Although I close this PR, you'll still get the credits for this suggestion.

Have a nice weekend! 🎄