Not generating slug

[krajcovict]

Hi, I'm not able to generate slug when seeding database. I'm making e-commerce website course, learning Laravel as a beginner.

But no error about slug is provided. What should I do? (Slug is not inserted into database when 'slug' collumn is not nullable. When I made 'slug' collumn nullable, it also remains empty. Laravel-sluggable installed.

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'slug' doesn't have a default value (Connection: mysql, SQL: insert into products (title, image, description, price, created_at, updated_at, created_by, updated_by) values (Accusantium enim sapiente reprehenderit. [...])

Product.php

<?php
namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;
use Spatie\Sluggable\HasSlug;
use Spatie\Sluggable\SlugOptions;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;

class Product extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
    use HasSlug;
    use SoftDeletes;

    public function getSlugOptions(): SlugOptions
    {
        Log::info('Generating slug for product: ' . ($this->title));
        return SlugOptions::create()
            ->generateSlugsFrom('title')
            ->saveSlugsTo('slug');
    }
}

ProductFactory.php

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;

/**
 * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\Models\Product>
 */
class ProductFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition(): array
    {
        Log::info('Generating fake product data');
        return [
            'title' => fake()->text(20),
            'image' => fake()->imageUrl(),
            'description' => fake()->realText(2000),
            'price' => fake()->randomFloat(2, 2, 5),
            'created_at' => now(),
            'updated_at' => now(),
            'created_by' => 1,
            'updated_by' => 1,
        ];
    }
}

ProductSeeder.php

<?php  

namespace Database\Seeders;

use App\Models\Product;
use Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\WithoutModelEvents;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;

class ProductSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Run the database seeds.
     */
    public function run(): void
    {
        Log::info('Seeding products table with fake data');
        Product::factory(50)->create();
    }
}

laravel.log (Nothing logged from Product.php)
[2025-11-19 14:16:48] local.INFO: Seeding products table with fake data [2025-11-19 14:16:48] local.INFO: Generating fake product data
...aaand 49 other rows of Generating fake product data

2025_10_20_194742_create_products_table.php

<?php

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     */
    public function up(): void
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('title', 2000);
            $table->string('slug', 2000)->nullable(); // I tried not nullable too.
            $table->string('image', 2000)->nullable();
            $table->string('image_mime')->nullable();
            $table->integer('image_size')->nullable();
            $table->longText('description')->nullable();
            $table->decimal('price', 10, 2);
            $table->foreignIdFor(User::class, 'created_by')->nullable();
            $table->foreignIdFor(User::class, 'updated_by')->nullable();
            $table->softDeletes();
            $table->foreignIdFor(User::class, 'deleted_by')->nullable();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     */
    public function down(): void
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('products');
    }
};

[krajcovict]

SOLVED - Problem was WithoutModelEvents trait in DatabaseSeeder class: "This trait prevents Eloquent events from firing, preventing HasSlug trait's to execute the slug generation."