Migrations - automatically create database

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I'm pretty new to Laravel. I made a to do application as a school assignment. We have to use migrations to create our database.

I created 2 tables using migrations. My questing is: if you run the project for the first time on your pc, is there a way that the database is automatically created?

Because at this moment, I have to create the empty database first (manually in phpmyadmin) before running the migrations.

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/16123888/… ? — Crembo
– Crembo, Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 11:20
@Crembo, no my questing is not how to generate tables automatically. I want to know there is a possible way to generate the database AND tables automatically. — RW24
– RW24, Commented Jan 11, 2015 at 11:32

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:50:56Z

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Everything you can do with SQL is possible in Laravel. So yes:

DB::statement('CREATE DATABASE your_db_name');

However you might not be able to do this in a migration because of the migrations table that's needed (although I'm not sure about this)

You could check this post about using a command to create a new db

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:50

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