Safely remove migration In Laravel

Question

In Laravel, there appears to be a command for creating a migration, but not removing.

Create migration command:

php artisan migrate:make create_users_tab         


        

Answer 1

I accidentally created a migration with a bad name (command: php artisan migrate:make). I did not run (php artisan migrate) the migration, so I decided to remove it. My steps:

1. Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
2. Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
3. Relax

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If you did run the migration (php artisan migrate), you may do this:

a) Run migrate:rollback - it is the right way to undo the last migration (Thnx @Jakobud)

b) If migrate:rollback does not work, do it manually (I remember bugs with migrate:rollback in previous versions):

1. Manually delete the migration file under app/database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php
2. Reset the composer autoload files: composer dump-autoload
3. Modify your database: Remove the last entry from the migrations table

Answer 2

 php artisan migrate:fresh

Should do the job, if you are in development and the desired outcome is to start all over.

In production, that maybe not the desired thing, so you should be adverted. (The migrate:fresh command will drop all tables from the database and then execute the migrate command).

Answer 3

This works for me:

1. I deleted all tables in my database, mainly the migrations table.
2. php artisan migrate:refresh

in laravel 5.5.43