Use Faker methods instead of properties

Maybe you can tell I've been doing a bunch of code reviews lately.

Here's another pretty basic tip, but one I see ignored quite frequently in real-world projects.

Older versions of Faker used dynamic properties to generate fake data. For example, $faker->name would return a random name.

Then they added support for method calls, like $faker->name().

You might think this is just a stylistic choice, since both options continue to work. But the property syntax is deprecated since Faker v1.14.0 (which came out way back in 2021) and will be removed in a future version.

Property access also triggers deprecation warnings, so it's a good idea to clean up your factories now and not rely on the older syntax.

Here to help,

Joel

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