The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.
Either run
php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-faker
or add
"yiisoft/yii2-faker": "~2.0.0"
to the require section of your composer.json.
To use this extension, simply add the following code in your application configuration (console.php):
'controllerMap' => [
'fixture' => [
'class' => 'yii\faker\FixtureController',
],
],