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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By : Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile
Book Image

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By: Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile

Overview of this book

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and is also free and an open source. Laravel 5 is a substantial upgrade with a lot of new toys, at the same time retaining the features that made Laravel wildly successful. It comes with plenty of architectural as well as design-based changes. The book is a blend of numerous recipes that will give you all the necessary tips you need to build an application. It starts with basic installation and configuration tasks and will get you up-and-running in no time. You will learn to create and customize your PHP app and tweak and re-design your existing apps for better performance. You will learn to implement practical recipes to utilize Laravel’s modular structure, the latest method injection, route caching, and interfacing techniques to create responsive modern-day PHP apps that stand on their own against other apps. Efficient testing and deploying techniques will make you more confident with your Laravel skills as you move ahead with this book. Towards the end of the book, you will understand a number of add-ons and new features essential to finalize your application to make it ready for subscriptions. You will be empowered to get your application out to the world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Laravel 5.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Altering a migration


Migration workflows are one more thing that makes Laravel such a great framework for teams as well as the lone developer. In this recipe, we are going to show the proper way to change a migration.

Getting ready

Even a fresh install will get you started, we just need a migration and then we will alter it. In this case, we are going to alter the users table.

How to do it....

Follow these steps to alter the users table:

  1. Inside Vagrant, run your migration if you have not already. We talked about setting up Vagrant in Chapter 1, Setting Up and Installing Laravel.

  2. Then type:

    >php artisan make:migration alter_users_table_add_twitter_name_field
    
  3. Now you will have the file in your database/migrations folder—edit that so it looks like the following:

  4. Then we need to modify it to add the actual logic to alter the table users. In this case by adding a field:

  5. Then run the migration:

    >php artisan migrate
    
  6. That's it, you now have a new field to save twitter names too!

How it works…

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