Generate Laravel Migrations from an existing database, including indexes and foreign keys!

This package is a modified version of https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator that has been updated to support Laravel 5.6 and beyond, along with additional features.

Laravel Migrations Generator supports all five Laravel first-party support databases:

• MariaDB
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• SQLite

The recommended way to install this is through composer:

composer require --dev kitloong/laravel-migrations-generator

Laravel will automatically register service provider for you.

$app->withFacades();

$app->register(\KitLoong\MigrationsGenerator\MigrationsGeneratorServiceProvider::class);

To generate migrations from a database, you need to have your database setup in Laravel's config (config/database.php).

To create migrations for all the tables, run:

php artisan migrate:generate

You can specify the tables you wish to generate using:

php artisan migrate:generate --tables="table1,table2,table3,table4,table5"

You can also ignore tables with:

php artisan migrate:generate --ignore="table3,table4,table5"

Laravel Migrations Generator will first generate all the tables, columns and indexes, and afterwards setup all the foreign key constraints.

So make sure you include all the tables listed in the foreign keys so that they are present when the foreign keys are created.

You can also specify the connection name if you are not using your default connection with:

php artisan migrate:generate --connection="connection_name"

By default, Generator will generate multiple migration files for each table.

You can squash all migrations into a single file with:

php artisan migrate:generate --squash

Run php artisan help migrate:generate for a list of options.

The generator first generates all tables and then adds foreign keys to existing tables.

However, SQLite only supports foreign keys upon creation of the table and not when tables are altered. add_foreign_keys migrations will still be generated, however will get omitted if migrate to SQLite type database.

The generator will register custom data type from the schema, then generate migration as

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('table', function (Blueprint $table) {
        ...
    });
    DB::statement("ALTER TABLE table ADD column custom_type NOT NULL");
}

Note that the new column is always added at the end of the created table which means the ordering of the column generated in migration will differ from what we have from the schema.

Supported database with custom types:

• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server

Thanks to Bernhard Breytenbach for his great work. This package is based on https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator.

The Laravel Migrations Generator is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license