added faker package to development libraries for mocking up content

Author: James Wigger

composer.json

@@ -21,5 +21,8 @@
         "files": [
             "helpers.php"
         ]
+    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.6"
     }
 }

helpers.php

@@ -142,3 +142,18 @@ function base_layout_has($key)
         return false;
     }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new faker instance for mocking content
+ *
+ * @return Faker\Generator
+ */
+if(!function_exists('base_faker_factory')) {
+    function base_faker_factory() {
+        if(!class_exists('Faker\Factory')) {
+            throw new Exception('Faker library is not installed - are you running in production?');
+        }
+
+        return Faker\Factory::create();
+    }
+}