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

As used by other answers, DB::unprepared does not work with more complex SQL files.

Another better solution would be to use the MySQL cli directly inside a process:

$process = new Process([
            'mysql',
            '-h',
            DB::getConfig('host'),
            '-u',
            DB::getConfig('user'),
            '-p' . DB::getConfig('password'),
            DB::getConfig('database'),
            '-e',
            "source path/to/schema.sql"
        ]);
        $process->mustRun();