How to implement your own Faker provider in Laravel

Question

I want to create a custom provider for Faker in Laravel (e.g. one for a random building name).

Where do I store the custom provider in my application and how do I use i

Answer 1

I found this worked better, as it did not require my $faker instance to be instantiated with resolve():

public function register ()
    {
        $this->app->bind( Generator::class, function ( $app ) {

            $faker = \Faker\Factory::create();
            $faker->addProvider( new CustomFakerProvider( $faker ) );

            return $faker;
        } );

    }