Migration Generator for Laravel is a package by Bennett Treptow to generate migrations from existing database structures.
If you are looking to convert your existing application into Laravel or want to use existing database for Laravel project, then this package could be helpful.
Following is the table definition for which we want to create migration class as example.
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`username` varchar(128) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`email` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
`first_name` varchar(45) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`last_name` varchar(45) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`timezone` varchar(45) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT 'America/New_York',
`location_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
`deleted_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`remember_token` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`created_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `users_username_index` (`username`),
KEY `users_first_name_index` (`first_name`),
KEY `users_last_name_index` (`last_name`),
KEY `users_email_index` (`email`),
KEY `fk_users_location_id_index` (`location_id`)
CONSTRAINT `users_location_id_foreign` FOREIGN KEY (`location_id`) REFERENCES `locations` (`id`) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
By using this package, you can run following command to generate blueprint class against the above table definition.
php artisan generate:migrations
Users table class will look like as following as per above mentioned table definition.
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateUsersTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/ public function up()
{
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('username', 128)->nullable()->index();
$table->string('email', 255)->index();
$table->string('password', 255);
$table->string('first_name', 45)->nullable()->index();
$table->string('last_name', 45)->index();
$table->string('timezone', 45)->default('America/New_York');
$table->unsignedInteger('location_id');
$table->softDeletes();
$table->string('remember_token', 255)->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
$table->foreign('location_id', 'users_location_id_foreign')->references('id')->on('locations')->onUpdate('cascade')->onDelete('cascade');
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/ public function down()
{
Schema::dropIfExists('users');
}
}
The package also has some table and view migration stubs and configuration settings. Such as, following configuration defines the filename patterns used to generate table schema.
return [
'table_naming_scheme' => '[Timestamp]_create_[TableName]_table.php',
// ...
];
You can get more information about this package from GitHub repo.
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