I would like to know is there any feature in laravel to generate migration scripts dynamically ( I mean scripts not migration files) like in Doctrine?
I have researched in the internet but didn't find a solution.
In Eloquent I generated migration files and wrote migration scripts manully. But in Doctrine I can generate migration script from entities (models) by issuing command migrations:diff, migrations:migrate etc. Thanks in advance.
You never define any of your table's fields in your Model class, so Laravel doesn't even know where to get the diff in your database.
But if your database is already there, check this question: how to create migration from existing database in laravel
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I'm new in Laravel world!
I created a Database in MySql with 8 Tables!
now i just want to know that do I need to create Migration for all 8 tables?
or just need to create model for each table?
It is up to you. If you don't need migration for those tables (ie. for testing/seeding, migration to another database or creating new local setup), then it is not necessary.
Also models are not required but if you want to use Eloquent and other fancy Laravel things, then create them.
From my point of view there is no reason to not have migrations and models.
I am new to Laravel and was working on one project, which was 90% completed, and now project is 100% completed.
The project has old Migration files. I have made so many modifications in the tables (added/deleted columns) and/or added new tables in the database, now how do I update/create the Migration for that modifications? Because I don't remember where did I made the changes in the tables.
Do I have to use artisan command to create new migration for users table and all other tables same like this? php artisan make:migration create_users_table --create=users or there is any another way?
I have read the documentation but don't get how to do it.
Please correct me if I have made any mistake, because I don't know how to ask this question.
We user migration and tinker to Not use phpmyadmin , so if you have altered your tables in any way in phpmyadmin , you are all set , no need to do anything.
If you dont want to use phpmyadmin you can use migration and then start writing the sql code in there ( altering tables , etc)
And as we know the migration php files are located in your laravelfolder/database/migration . you can edit them there and then run php artisan migration and it will go throw all of them and make the changes in phpmyadmin.
Hope im clear enough :D
I found laravel very interesting. But I'm wondering if there's any artisan command to generate all MVC skeleton files provided a database table all at ones. And how about separate generation of especially the model, given the table structure? or is there any alternative way to do the code generating?
You can create a migration file from the table via the package below.
https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator
Install it via : composer require --dev "xethron/migrations-generator"
Follow the package instructions, After connecting you application with the database simply run php artisan migrate:generate.
You will see number of migrations created via console message, You can also check your database/migrations folder for confirmation.
I didn't find how to do that, so I created my own code in order to create the models:
https://github.com/Triun/laravel-model-base
It is not super documented, but you can actually write your own addons in order to add custom business behaviors or include your own interfaces or traits to your models, with your own code.
And of course, reports and contributions are more than welcome.
I hope this helps.
in Lumen when i try to create a database migration the artisan try to store the migration file on my-project/database folder which causes an error because the migration folder in Lumen located under my-project/model/migration. so why artisan doesn't use the Lumen migration folder.
As you have stated that lumen tries to store the migrations inside the database/migrations and it is the intended behaviour and is by the design.
If you want the proof it is here:
https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.4/database#migrations
It has already stated that it uses laravel type of migration behaviour.
So, you must try to maintain the structure if you want to create and run migration using default standard, which would be great if in near future you want to migrate to laravel from lumen.
Also you have stated that lumen's migration is inside model. It was never there by the design. You might have changed the folder structure of the migrations.
Want the proof :
https://github.com/laravel/lumen/tree/master/database/migrations
https://github.com/laravel/lumen/tree/5.0/database/migrations
https://github.com/laravel/lumen/tree/5.2/database/migrations
https://github.com/laravel/lumen/tree/5.3/database/migrations
Hope it clears your confusions.
I'm new to Laravel but have worked on Hibernate with Java.
Is there a way to generate models from existing tables?
All I found is creating migrations to create tables.
The Larry Four package will allow you to do so, but please note that I have not used it myself.