diff --git a/lib/Doctrine/Data/Import.php b/lib/Doctrine/Data/Import.php
index a71d6cc81..fb4a3efc7 100644
--- a/lib/Doctrine/Data/Import.php
+++ b/lib/Doctrine/Data/Import.php
@@ -158,15 +158,8 @@ class Doctrine_Data_Import extends Doctrine_Data
             
             for ($i = 0; $i < $num; $i++) {
                 $obj = new $name();
-                $columns = array_keys($obj->toArray());
-                $pks = $obj->getTable()->getPrimaryKeys();
                 
-                foreach ($columns as $column) {
-                    
-                    if (!in_array($column, $pks)) {
-                       $obj->$column = uniqid();
-                    }
-                }
+                $this->populateDummyRecord($obj);
                 
                 $obj->save();
                 
@@ -174,4 +167,87 @@ class Doctrine_Data_Import extends Doctrine_Data
             }
         }
     }
+    
+    public function populateDummyRecord(Doctrine_Record $record)
+    {
+        $lorem = explode(' ', "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.");
+        
+        $columns = array_keys($record->toArray());
+        $pks = $record->getTable()->getPrimaryKeys();
+        
+        foreach ($columns as $column) {
+            
+            if (!in_array($column, $pks)) {
+                if ($relation = $this->isRelation($record, $column)) {
+                    $alias = $relation['alias'];
+                    $relationObj = $record->$alias;
+                    
+                    $this->populateDummyRecord($relationObj);
+                    
+                } else {
+                    
+                    $definition = $record->getTable()->getDefinitionOf($column);
+                    
+                    switch($definition['type'])
+                    {
+                        case 'string';     
+                            shuffle($lorem);
+                    
+                            $record->$column = substr(implode(' ', $lorem), 0, $definition['length']);
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'integer':
+                            $record->$column = rand();
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'boolean':
+                            $record->$column = true;
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'float':
+                            $record->$column = number_format(rand($definition['length'], $definition['length']), 2, '.', null);
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'array':
+                            $record->$column = array('test' => 'test');
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'object':
+                            $record->$column = new stdObject();
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'blob':
+                            $record->$column = '';
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'clob':
+                            $record->$column = '';
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'timestamp':
+                            $record->$column = date('Y-m-d h:i:s', time());
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'time':
+                            $record->$column = date('h:i:s', time());
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'date':
+                            $record->$column = date('Y-m-d', time());
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'enum':
+                            $record->$column = 'test';
+                        break;
+                        
+                        case 'gzip':
+                            $record->$column = 'test';
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        
+        return $record;
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/manual/new/docs/en/data-fixtures.txt b/manual/new/docs/en/data-fixtures.txt
index 1a0b21273..d24749e26 100644
--- a/manual/new/docs/en/data-fixtures.txt
+++ b/manual/new/docs/en/data-fixtures.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ $models = array('User', 'Phonenumber'); // you can optionally specify an array o
 Doctrine_Data::importData($path, $format, $models);
 </code>
 
+++ Dummy Data
+
+With Doctrine Data you can import dummy data to all your Doctrine Records
+
+<code type="php">
+$numRecords = 3; // Number of dummy records to populate for each model
+$models = array('User', 'Email'); // Models to generate dummy data for. If none specified it generates dummy data for all loaded models.
+
+Doctrine_Data::importDummyData($numRecords, $models);
+</code>
+
 ++ Writing
 
 You can write your fixtures files manually and load them in to your applications. Below is a sample data.yml fixtures file