Laravel create database when testing

Question

I am trying to run my unit test and create a database during setup. For some reason I am getting the error Unknown database \'coretest\'. If I create the databa

Answer 1

I feel like I have a much cleaner way of doing this. Just execute the commands normally through the shell.

$host      = Config::get('database.connections.mysql.host');
$database  = Config::get('database.connections.mysql.database');
$username  = Config::get('database.connections.mysql.username');
$password  = Config::get('database.connections.mysql.password');
echo shell_exec('mysql -h ' . $host . ' -u ' . $username . ' -p' . $password . ' -e "DROP DATABASE ' . $database . '"');
echo shell_exec('mysql -h ' . $host . ' -u ' . $username . ' -p' . $password . ' -e "CREATE DATABASE ' . $database . '"');