PHP Faker. How to create N unique words?

Question

I need to create N unique words. It seems that 'words' doesn't work with 'unique'.

\Faker\Factory::create()->unique()->words(14);

...unique()->word() is working. I am trying to create 250 unique words like that:

for ($i = 1; $i <= 250; $i++) {
    $iadefaults[] = $faker->unique()->word();
}

but I get

Maximum retries of 10000 reached without finding a unique value

How can I create those 250 unique words with faker?

Answer 1

Looks like I found a solution for your issue

Go to Faker's sources and there you'll find a Provider/Lorem.php file

At the very top of it there's a protected static $wordList propery that contains an array defining which words are returned by the generator. If you do count(array_count_values($wordList)); - you'll see a magic number of 182 unique words :) No wonder it was unable to get more unique values based on that list.

So you just need to put more unique words in that array and that will do the trick!