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Laravel 5 Extended Generators

Important: This is a fork of the Laravel-5-Generators-Extended repo forked for the purpose of merging a long time open pull request that adds an optional --path parameter. I have also edited the migration stub and removed the id and timestamp fields added by default. I have added a --timestamps switch to control the timestamps. I have also added a --foreignReferenceName= option to pass in the name of the id column on the referenced table, if you need it to be different from the default of 'id'

If you're familiar with my Laravel 4 Generators, then this is basically the same thing - just upgraded for Laravel 5.

L5 includes a bunch of generators out of the box, so this package only needs to add a few things, like:

• make:migration:schema
• make:migration:pivot
• make:seed

With one or two more to come.

Usage on Laravel 5.5

Step 1: Install Through Composer

Step 2: Run Artisan!

You're all set. Run php artisan from the console, and you'll see the new commands in the make:* namespace section.

Usage on Laravel 5.4 and 5.3

Step 1: Install Through Composer

Step 2: Add the Service Provider

You'll only want to use these generators for local development, so you don't want to update the production providers array in config/app.php. Instead, add the provider in app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php, like so:

Step 3: Run Artisan!

You're all set. Run php artisan from the console, and you'll see the new commands in the make:* namespace section.

Examples

• Migrations With Schema
• Pivot Tables
• Database Seeders

Migrations With Schema

Notice the format that we use, when declaring any applicable schema: a comma-separate list...

So any of these will do:

Using the schema from earlier...

...this will give you:

When generating migrations with schema, the name of your migration (like, "create_users_table") matters. We use it to figure out what you're trying to accomplish. In this case, we began with the "create" keyword, which signals that we want to create a new table.

Alternatively, we can use the "remove" or "add" keywords, and the generated boilerplate will adapt, as needed. Let's create a migration to remove a column.

Now, notice that we're using the correct Schema methods.

Here's a few other examples of commands that you might write:

• php artisan make:migration:schema create_posts_table
• php artisan make:migration:schema create_posts_table --schema="title:string, body:text, excerpt:string:nullable"
• php artisan make:migration:schema remove_excerpt_from_posts_table --schema="excerpt:string:nullable"

Now, when you create a migration, you typically want a model to go with it, right? By default, we'll go ahead and create an Eloquent model to go with your migration. This means, if you run, say:

You'll get a migration, populated with the schema...but you'll also get an Eloquent model at app/Dog.php. Naturally, you can opt out of this by adding the --model=0 flag/option.

If you wish to specify a different path for your migration file, you can use the --path option like so:

Foreign Constraints

There's also a secret bit of sugar for when you need to generate foreign constraints. Imagine that you have a posts table, where each post belongs to a user. Let's try:

Notice that "foreign" option (user_id:unsignedInteger:foreign)? That's special. It signals that user_id should receive a foreign constraint. Following conventions, this will give us:

As such, for that full command, our schema should look like so:

Neato.

Pivot Tables

So you need a migration to setup a pivot table in your database? Easy. We can scaffold the whole class with a single command.

Here we pass, in any order, the names of the two tables that we need a joining/pivot table for. This will give you:

Notice that the naming conventions are being followed here, regardless of what order you pass the table names.

Database Seeders

This one is fairly basic. It just gives you a quick seeder class in the "database/seeds" folder.