Laravel Migrations

Laravel Migrations is a version control system for databases that allows defining, modifying, and deleting tables. Migrations make collaboration within a team easier.

Creating a Migration

php artisan make:migration create_your_table_name_table

Running Migrations

This command executes all the up methods of migration files that have not yet been executed.

php artisan migrate

Checking the Status of Migrations

php artisan migrate:status

Rolling Back Migrations

This command executes all the down methods of migration files that were previously executed by the php artisan migrate command.

php artisan migrate:rollback

Specifying How Many php artisan migrate Commands to Roll Back

In this case, all the down methods of migration files that were applied with the last three php artisan migrate commands will be executed.

php artisan migrate:rollback --step=3

Merging (Squashing) Migrations into a SQL File

php artisan schema:dump

# Dump the current database schema and prune all existing migrations...
php artisan schema:dump --prune