Reverse engineering or Auto-Generations of Entities in Laravel?

Question

I usually work with SF2, and with Doctrine, Entities can be generated automatically and if you build the schema in a Soft like MySQL Workbench you can do Reverse Engineering

Answer 1

As far as I can tell there is still no way to reverse a schema to migration files, using Laravel only. But you can:

1) Export your MySQL schema

mysqldump -u root -p --no-data dbname > schema.sql

2) Create a migration to use your schema

php artisan migration:make create_schema

3) Boot your full schema

class CreateSchema extends Migration {

    public function up()
    {
        $file = file_get_contents(app_path().'/database/data/full_schema.sql', true);

        DB::unprepared($file);
    }

    public function down()
    {
    }

}

4) After that, if you need to do any changes to your schema, just create new migrations and make your changes.

Not tested, but should work.