README

Laravel-style migrations for Phinx.

• Introduction
• Migration Structure
• Tables
  • Creating Tables
  • Updating Tables
  • Table Options
• Indexes
  • Creating Indexes

Introduction

Phinx provides a way to declare schemas in migrations, but it's somewhat difficult to use because of the array of options that vary by column type.

Fluent Phinx provides a fluent Laravel-style schema builder to simplify writing and reading migrations.

Migration Structure

Fluent Phinx relies on regular Phinx migration files, with either a change method or up/down method pair.

The Fluent trait can be used to add fluent functionality to the migration file.

<?php

use jmsfwk\FluentPhinx\Fluent;
use jmsfwk\FluentPhinx\Schema\Blueprint;
use Phinx\Migration\AbstractMigration;

class CreateUsersTable extends AbstractMigration
{
    use Fluent;

    public function change()
    {
        $this->create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            
            $table->id = false; // Turn off automatic id column
            $table->primary_key = 'id'; // Set the 'id' column as the primary key
        });
    }
}

Tables

Creating Tables

To create a new database table, use the create method on from the Fluent trait. The create method accepts two arguments: the first is the name of the table, while the second is a closure which receives a Blueprint object that may be used to define the new table:

$this->create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
});

When creating the table, you may use any of the schema builder's column methods to define the table's columns.

Updating Tables

To update a table the update method from the Fluent trait can be used. Like the create method this will accept two arguments: the name of the table, and a closure that receives a Blueprint object to define the changes.

$this->update('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->integer('votes');
});

Table Options

You may use the following properties on the schema builder to define the table's options:

Indexes

Creating Indexes

Indexes can be added in two places, from the column definition and from the Blueprint object.

From the column you can pass the index name to the index method.

$table->string('email')->unique();

To create an index after defining the column, you should call the unique method on the schema builder blueprint. This method accepts the name of the column that should receive a unique index:

$table->unique('email');

You may pass an array of columns to an index method to create a compound (or composite) index:

$table->index(['account_id', 'created_at']);

When creating an index you may pass a second argument to the method to specify the index name:

$table->unique('email', 'unique_email');

Available Index Types