Reverse migrations

I'm just wondering, having picked up another project that doesn't use Laravel that I'd like to move to using Laravel, is there any reason why you'd want to re-create the DB using Laravel migrations and if so, is there an existing package that will reverse engineer a DB into Laravel migration files ready to be run?

Thanks

Dave

bestmomo

11 years ago

Level 52

Hello,

There some solutions like this one or this one.

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milon

11 years ago

Level 32

https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator package has a bug, if you have relationship between tables than rollback doesn't work.

ritey

11 years ago

Level 2

Thanks guys, so people use these then, rather than just working with the DB independently? It's interesting because I work a lot with a DBA who really is adverse to this kind of thing so I'm interested to learn the reasonings why it should or shouldn't be adopted from a wider stand point.

Thanks

pmall

11 years ago

Level 56

@ritey migrations are cool if you want to keep versions of your database structure. If you don't deal with it there is no real interest.

maytham

11 years ago

Level 3

Btw I found this link http://www.laravelsd.com might be helpful.

maytham

11 years ago

Level 3

Look at this https://github.com/nWidart/DbExporter and this https://github.com/adamkearsley/laravel-convert-migrations

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