laravel-4

Use Laravel seed and sql files to populate database

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?

Solution
    1. Add DB::unprepared() to the run method of DatabaseSeeder.

    2. Run php artisan db:seed at the command line.

      class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder {

    public function run()
    {
        Eloquent::unguard();

        $this->call('UserTableSeeder');
        $this->command->info('User table seeded!');

        $path = 'app/developer_docs/countries.sql';
        DB::unprepared(file_get_contents($path));
        $this->command->info('Country table seeded!');
    }
}