Laravel 5.4 Specific Table Migration

Question

Hi read all the included documentation here in https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/migrations.

Is there a way on how to migrate a certain migration file (1 migration only),

Answer 1

If you want to create another table, just create a new migration file. It's will work.

If you create an migration named users_table with id, first_name, last_name. You can create an migration file like

    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('first_name',255);
            $table->string('last_name',255);
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('users');
    }

If you want to add another filed like "status" without migrate:refresh. You can create another migration file like "add_status_filed_to_users_table"

public function up()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->integer('status');
    });
} 

And don't forget to add the rollback option:

public function down()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->dropColumn('status');
    });
}

And when you run migrate with php artitsan migration, It just migrate the new migration file.

But if you add filed "status" into the first mgration file (users_table) and run migration. It's nothing to migrate. You need to run php artisan migrate:refresh.

Hope this help.