truncate all tables in laravel using eloquent

Question

Is there a way I could truncate all the tables in a db using eloquent or fluent in laravel 4? I do not want to specify table names, I just want to truncate all the tables. In ot

Answer 1

This is how i truncate all tables inside a database (including table exceptions), it works for me.

    // set tables don't want to trucate here
    $excepts = ['migrations'];
    $tables = DB::connection()
    ->getPdo()
    ->query("SHOW FULL TABLES")
    ->fetchAll();
    $tableNames = [];

    $keys = array_keys($tables[0]);
    $keyName = $keys[0];
    $keyType = $keys[1];

    foreach ($tableNames as $name) {
        //if you don't want to truncate migrations
        if (in_array($name[$keyName], $excepts))
            continue;

        // truncate tables only
        if('BASE TABLE' !== $name[$keyType])
            continue;

        \DB::table($name)->truncate();
    }