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While working in any application, sometimes we need lots of dummy data to test the workflow of entire application. Inside this article we will see how to generate random name of person in PHP with or without using faker library.

Faker library needs to be install by using composer. Once install, there are several properties, methods available to generate various type of fake data like Name, Email, Phone number etc.

This article is super easy to understand and implement in php programming. To use Faker library, your system must have composer installed. If don’t, please follow this article to install in Linux Operating System. How To Install Composer in Ubuntu 18.04 ?

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Random Names without Using Any Library

Let’s create an application in PHP.

Create a folder with name php-random. Inside this folder create a file like index.php.

Open index.php and write this complete code into it.

index.php
<?php​// Function to return the name of a person on every callfunction generateRandomName(){    $firstname = array(        'Johnathon',        'Anthony',        'Erasmo',        'Raleigh',        'Nancie',        'Tama',        'Camellia',        'Augustine',        'Christeen',        'Luz',        'Diego',        'Lyndia',        'Thomas',        'Georgianna',        'Leigha',        'Alejandro',        'Marquis',        'Joan',        'Stephania',        'Elroy',        'Zonia',        'Buffy',        'Sharie',        'Blythe',        'Gaylene',        'Elida',        'Randy',        'Margarete',        'Margarett',        'Dion',        'Tomi',        'Arden',        'Clora',        'Laine',        'Becki',        'Margherita',        'Bong',        'Jeanice',        'Qiana',        'Lawanda',        'Rebecka',        'Maribel',        'Tami',        'Yuri',        'Michele',        'Rubi',        'Larisa',        'Lloyd',        'Tyisha',        'Samatha',    );​    $lastname = array(        'Mischke',        'Serna',        'Pingree',        'Mcnaught',        'Pepper',        'Schildgen',        'Mongold',        'Wrona',        'Geddes',        'Lanz',        'Fetzer',        'Schroeder',        'Block',        'Mayoral',        'Fleishman',        'Roberie',        'Latson',        'Lupo',        'Motsinger',        'Drews',        'Coby',        'Redner',        'Culton',        'Howe',        'Stoval',        'Michaud',        'Mote',        'Menjivar',        'Wiers',        'Paris',        'Grisby',        'Noren',        'Damron',        'Kazmierczak',        'Haslett',        'Guillemette',        'Buresh',        'Center',        'Kucera',        'Catt',        'Badon',        'Grumbles',        'Antes',        'Byron',        'Volkman',        'Klemp',        'Pekar',        'Pecora',        'Schewe',        'Ramage',    );​    $name = $firstname[rand(0, count($firstname) - 1)];    $name .= ' ';    $name .= $lastname[rand(0, count($lastname) - 1)];​    return $name;}​// for single nameecho generateRandomName();​// for 10 person namesfor ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {    echo generateRandomName() . "<br/>";}​

To use function, simply call it by it’s name as –

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How to Generate Random Name of Person in PHP

Random Names without Using Any Library

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