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

I found a package that creates seed files from database tables and rows. It currently supports Laravel 4, 5, 6 and 7:

https://github.com/orangehill/iseed

In the end, it's basically as easy as this:

php artisan iseed my_table

or for multiple occasions:

php artisan iseed my_table,another_table