Different ways to generate faker sentences, paragraphs, and word arrays using native Faker `realText` algorithm.

FakerFunctions.php

<?php

use Faker\Generator as Faker;

/**
 * Different ways to generate faker sentences, paragraphs, and word arrays using native
 * Faker `realText` algorithm. 
 **/

if (!function_exists('fakerRealParagraph')) {
    /**
     * Generates real text paragraphs from faker realtext algorithm
     * @param Faker $faker Faker instance
     * @param int $min Minimum amount of paragraphs
     * @param int $max Maximum number of paragraphs
     * @param int $tmin Character tolerance minimum
     * @param int $tmax Character tolerance maximum
     * @return string A string of text containing paragraphs, separated by new lines
     */
    function fakerRealParagraphs(Faker $faker, int $min = 1, int $max = 5, int $tmin = 100, int $tmax = 500) {
        // Grab random number between min and max //
        $num = $faker->numberBetween($min, $max);

        $paragraphs = [];

        // Loop through num //
        for ($i = 0; $i < $num; $i++) {
            // Grab real text using tolerance min and max //
            $paragraphs[] = trim($faker->realText($faker->numberBetween($tmin, $tmax)));
        }

        // Return a string containing all the paragraphs, separated by newlines //
        return implode(PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL, $paragraphs);
    }
}

if (!function_exists('fakerRealWords')) {

    /**
     * Returns an array of words based on realText algorithm
     * @param Faker $faker Faker instance
     * @param int $min Minimum character tolerance
     * @param int $max Maximum character tolerance
     * @param bool $strip Strip punctuation
     * @return array
     * @uses fakerRealSentence
     */
    function fakerRealWords(Faker $faker, int $min = 10, $max = 100, bool $strip = true): array {
        // Use real sentence to grab a sentence of random words //
        $text = fakerRealSentence($faker, $min, $max, $strip);

        return explode(' ', $text);
    }
}

if (!function_exists('fakerRealSentence')) {
    /**
     * Generates a real text sentence
     * @param Faker $faker Faker instance
     * @param int $min Minimum amount of chars
     * @param int $max Maximum amount of chars
     * @param bool $strip Strips punctuation from text
     * @return string
     */
    function fakerRealSentence(Faker $faker, int $min = 25, int $max = 100, bool $strip = true): string {
        // Get a string of text between min and max length //
        $text = $faker->realText($faker->numberBetween($min, $max));

        // Strip out punctuation //
        if ($strip) {
            $text = preg_replace('#[[:punct:]]#', '', $text);
        }

        return trim($text);
    }
}