FramyDocumentation

Database: Migrations

• Introduction
• Generating Migrations
• Migration Structure
• Running Migrations
• Tables
  • Creating Tables
• Columns
  • Creating Columns
  • Available Column Types

Introduction

Migrations are like version control for your database, allowing your team to easily modify and share the application’s database schema.

Generating Migrations

To create a migration, use the make:migration Framy Command.

php Framy make:migration users_table connection

The new migration will be placed in your /app/custom/database/migration folder.

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.

Running Migrations

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

php Framy migrate

Tables

Creating Tables

To create a new database table, use the create method on the Schema class. The create method accepts three arguments.

Columns

Creating Columns

The table method on the Schema class may be used to update existing tables. Like the create method, the table method accepts two arguments: the name of the table and a Closure that receives a Blueprint instance you may use to add columns to the table:

Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('email');
}, "connection");

Available Column Types

Command	Description
$table->bigIncrements('id');	Auto-incrementing UNSIGNED BIGINT (primary key) equivalent column.
$table->bigInteger('votes');	BIGINT equivalent column.
$table->binary('data');	BLOB equivalent column.
$table->boolean('confirmed');	BOOLEAN equivalent column.
$table->char('name', 100);	CHAR equivalent column with an optional length.
$table->date('created_at');	DATE equivalent column.
$table->dateTime('created_at');	DATETIME equivalent column.
$table->decimal('amount', 8, 2);	DECIMAL equivalent column with a precision (total digits) and scale (decimal digits).
$table->double('amount', 8, 2);	DOUBLE equivalent column with a precision (total digits) and scale (decimal digits).
$table->char('name', 100);	CHAR equivalent column with an optional length.
$table->float('amount', 8, 2);	FLOAT equivalent column with a precision (total digits) and scale (decimal digits).
$table->increments('id');	Auto-incrementing UNSIGNED INTEGER (primary key) equivalent column.
$table->integer('votes');	INTEGER equivalent column.
$table->mediumInteger('votes');	MEDIUMINT equivalent column.
$table->string('name', 100);	VARCHAR equivalent column with a optional length.
$table->text('description');	TEXT equivalent column.
$table->time('sunrise');	TIME equivalent column.
$table->timestamp('added_on');	TIMESTAMP equivalent column.
$table->timestamps();	Adds nullable created_at and updated_at TIMESTAMP equivalent columns.
$table->year('birth_year');	YEAR equivalent column.

Column Modifiers

In addition to the column types listed above, there are several column “modifiers” you may use while adding a column to a database table. For example, to make the column “nullable”, you may use the nullable method:

Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('email')->nullable();
});

Modifier	Description
->autoIncrement()	Set INTEGER columns as auto-increment (primary key)
->comment('my comment')	Add a comment to a column (MySQL/PostgreSQL)
->default($value)	Specify a “default” value for the column
->nullable()	Allows (by default) NULL values to be inserted into the column
->unique()	Adds UNIQUE key word to field