php-laravelHow do I use Laravel migrations with PHP?

Migrations are a great way to keep track of the changes made to the database and make it easier to share the same database structure between different development environments.

In Laravel, migrations are stored in the database/migrations directory. Each migration file contains a up and down method, which are used to apply and rollback the changes to the database.

For example, to create a new table in the database, we can use the following code:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

The up method will create a new table named table_name with an id column and a name column. The timestamps method will create two additional columns, created_at and updated_at.

To apply the migration, we can run the following command:

php artisan migrate

This will create the table_name table in the database.

To rollback the migration, we can use the following command:

php artisan migrate:rollback

This will drop the table_name table from the database.

For more information on Laravel migrations, please refer to the official documentation.

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