franzl/laravel-easy-migrations

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Simple, reversible migrations for Laravel

1.0.1 2016-04-09 11:51 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.5.9
• illuminate/database: 5.2.*

MIT

• migrations
• laravel

README

Simple, reversible migrations for Laravel.

This package makes it easy to create automatically reversible database migrations for common operations. This way, you don't have to deal with the time-consuming and error-prone (not to mention stupid and boring) task of manually writing the down logic for your migrations.

• Installation
• Usage
• Documentation
  • Creating tables
  • Renaming tables
  • Dropping tables
  • Renaming columns
  • Adding columns
  • Dropping columns

Installation

Run composer require franzl/laravel-easy-migrations and you're good to go.

Please note that - just like with Laravel - you will need to install the doctrine/dbal package if you want to rename columns and/or drop SQLite columns.

Usage

To create a reversible migration, extend your migration class from the Franzl\EasyMigrations\EasyMigration base class. Your task: Overwrite the change method, which needs to return another migration instance. Luckily, this package already provides implementations for the most common migration operations.

For example, to add a new users table:

use Franzl\EasyMigrations\Easy;
use Franzl\EasyMigrations\EasyMigration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;

class CreateUsersTable extends EasyMigration
{
    public function change()
    {
        return Easy::createTable('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
        });
    }
}

Based on the parameters passed to Easy::createTable(), this method will return a migration instance with the up and down methods already implemented for you.

Documentation

This package currently implements the following four operations:

• Creating tables
• Renaming tables
• Dropping tables
• Renaming columns
• Adding columns
• Dropping columns

More will likely be implemented soon. Feel free to suggest a new operation type by creating an issue.

Creating tables

public function change()
{
    return Easy::createTable('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
    });
}

Renaming tables

public function change()
{
    return Easy::renameTable('old_users', 'new_users');
}

Dropping tables

public function change()
{
    return Easy::dropTable('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
    });
}

Note that, for the migration to be reversible, you will need to pass in a blueprint to restore the table completely. This would be executed when the migration is rolled back.

Renaming columns

public function change()
{
    return Easy::renameColumn('users', 'name', 'username');
}

Adding columns

public function change()
{
    return Easy::addColumns('users', [
        'password' => ['string'],
        'registered_at' => ['dateTime', 'nullable' => true]
    ]);
}

The second parameter is an array of column definitions, with the key being the column name. The value of each item is an array with the column definitions, as understood by Laravel's Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint::addColumn() method. The first option is the column type, any other keyed option is passed through to addColumn.

The following options are supported for all column types:

• nullable: Whether the column allows NULL values, boolean, defaults to false
• default: Column default value, mixed
• unique: Creates a UNIQUE index for the column, boolean, defaults to false
• first: Insert the column as the first in the table, boolean, defaults to false, MySQL only
• after: Insert the column directly after the specified existing column, string, MySQL only

In the following, all supported types, along with custom options, are listed:

char, string

• length: Column size, integer

text, mediumText, longText

No special options

integer, tinyInteger, smallInteger, mediumInteger, bigInteger

• autoIncrement: Set to true to mark this column as sequence
• unsigned: Set to true to mark this column as unsigned integer

float, decimal

• total: Number of decimal digits, integer, defaults to 8
• places: Number of digits after the decimal point, integer, defaults to 2

double

• total: Number of decimal digits, integer
• places: Number of digits after the decimal point, integer

boolean

No special options

enum

• allowed: An array of possible values that the column can have

json, jsonb

No special options

date, dateTime, dateTimeTz, time, timeTz, timestamp, timestampTz

No special options

binary

No special options

uuid

No special options

Dropping columns

public function change()
{
    return Easy::dropColumns('users', [
        'password' => ['string'],
        'registered_at' => ['dateTime', 'nullable' => true]
    ]);
}

Again, just like when dropping tables, you should specify the full column definitions so that the migration can be rolled back cleanly.

For a reference of column types and their respective options, please take a look at the documentation for adding columns.