Use Laravel seed and sql files to populate database

Question

I got several .sql files of countries, states and cities of the world from github. How can I run them with Laravel's seed files to populate those tables in my database?

Answer 1

1. Add DB::unprepared() to the run method of DatabaseSeeder.

2. Run php artisan db:seed at the command line.

   class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder {
   
       public function run()
       {
           Eloquent::unguard();
   
           $this->call('UserTableSeeder');
           $this->command->info('User table seeded!');
   
           $path = 'app/developer_docs/countries.sql';
           DB::unprepared(file_get_contents($path));
           $this->command->info('Country table seeded!');
       }
   }