Laravel Create Migration

Laravel Create Migration is like version control for your database, allowing your team to easily modify and share the application’s database schema. In this tutorial, we are going to learn about the Laravel Create Migration.

Laravel Create Migration

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Migration are typically paired with Laravel’s schema builder to easily build your application’s database schema. If you have ever had to tell a teammate to manually add a column to their local database schema, you’ve faced the problem that database migrations solve.

Step 1: Generating Migrations

To create a migration, use the make:migration here, users is the table name.

php artisan make:migration create_users_table

The new migration will be placed in your database/migrations directory. Each migration file name contains a timestamp which allows Laravel to determine the order of the migrations.

The --table and --create options may also be used to indicate the name of the table and whether the migration will be creating a new table. These options pre-fill the generated migration stub file with the specified table:

php artisan make:migration create_users_table --create=users

php artisan make:migration add_votes_to_users_table --table=users

Step 2: Migration Structure

A migration class contains two methods: up and down. The up method is used to add new tables, columns, or indexes to your database, while the down method should reverse the operations performed by the up method.

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreateFlightsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('flights', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('airline');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('flights');
    }
}

Step: 3 Running Migrations

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To run all of your outstanding migrations, execute the migrate Artisan command:

php artisan migrate

Step: 3 Rolling Back Migrations

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To rollback the latest migration operation, you may use the rollback command. This command rolls back the last “batch” of migrations, which may include multiple migration files:

php artisan migrate:rollback

You may rollback a limited number of migrations by providing the step option to the rollback command. For example, the following command will rollback the last five migrations:

php artisan migrate:rollback --step=5

The migrate:reset command will roll back all of your application’s migrations:

php artisan migrate:reset

Step:4 Rollback & Migrate In Single Command

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The migrate:refresh command will roll back all of your migrations and then execute the migrate command. This command effectively re-creates your entire database:

php artisan migrate:refresh

// Refresh the database and run all database seeds...
php artisan migrate:refresh --seed

You may rollback & re-migrate a limited number of migrations by providing the step option to the refresh command. For example, the following command will rollback & re-migrate the last five migrations:

php artisan migrate:refresh --step=5

Step:5 Drop All Tables & Migrate

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The migrate:fresh command will drop all tables from the database and then execute the migrate command:

php artisan migrate:fresh

php artisan migrate:fresh --seed