Laravel Migration is a version controlling system for the database. Migration helps developers to modify the database and share it across a platform. This is an integral part of the Laravel web development. You can easily alter database schema and track record of every update using Migration. This tutorial teaches you how to use migration in the Laravel framework. 

 

Step 1: 

To create new migration, run the following command: 

php artisan migrate:make create_users_table 

 

You will find your migration file inside the application/migrations directory. 

 

Step 2: 

Create table schema in the up() method of this file. 

 public  function up(){ 

       Schema::create(‘users’, function (Blueprint $table){ 

           $table->bigIncrements(‘id’); 

           $table->string(‘user_name’,32)->nullable(); 

           $table->string(’email’); 

           $table->string(‘password’); 

           $table->timestamps(); 

       }); 

} 

 

Step 3: 

To execute all the migrations, run: php artisan migrate 

 

Laravel allows you to rollback previous migrations you’ve made. 

To rollback the last migration, run: php artisan migrate:rollback 

If migration does not rollback automatically, then run: php artisan migrate:reset 

 

You can run specific migration using this command: 

 php artisan migrate –path=/database/migrations/my_migration.php 

 

Conclusion 

This tutorial shed some light on Laravel Migration and how you can use it in your project. Migrations might seem like an additional task at first; but when you understand it thoroughly, migrations will provide great help to track your database updates. 

 

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