Laravel how to create migration

Laravel's migration system is very simple and easy to use. In this blog post, we'll show you

How to create a migration and run it on your database.

First, let's create a new migration:

php artisan make:migration create_users_table

This will create a new migration file in your database/migrations directory. Open the newly created file and you'll see that it contains a up and down method. These methods are used to run the migration on your database.

In the up method, we'll add a create statement for our users table:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
        $table->string('email')->unique();
        $table->string('password');
        $table->rememberToken();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

Notice that we're using the Schema facade to access the database schema builder. We can use the create method to create a new table. The first argument is the name of the table, and the second argument is a closure that defines the columns in the table.

In the down method, we'll add a drop statement for our users table:

public function down()
{
    Schema::drop('users');
}

This will drop the users table from your database when you rollback the migration.

Now that our migration is defined, we can run it on our database:

php artisan migrate

This will run all of your outstanding migrations.

You can also specify a specific migration to run:

php artisan migrate:specific create_users_table

Now that our users table has been created, we can start adding data to it!