Laravel: Run migrations on another database

Question

In my app every user has its own database that created when user registered. Connection and database data (database name, username, password) are saved in a table in default

Answer 1

This is tedious to remember which migration corresponds to which database.

For Laravel 5.5 I used this approach:

public function up()
{

 // this line is important
  Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::setDefaultConnection('anotherDatabaseConnection');


   Schema::table('product',
          function (Blueprint $table)
     {
        $table->string('public_id', 85)->nullable()->after('ProductID');
     });

  // this line is important, Probably you need to set this to 'mysql'
   Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::setDefaultConnection('nameOfYourDefaultDatabaseConnection');
}

All migrations can be run automatically without taking care of specifying database manually when running them.

Please note that migrations table is stored inside your default database.