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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Laravel and Databases Migrations & Schema Builder

Matthew Bingham
Matthew Bingham
11,927 Points
Posted by Matthew Bingham
Matthew Bingham
11,927 Points

migrate:make is not defined

This command:

php artisan migrate:make create_todo_lists_table --create=todo_lists

... results in the following error:

[InvalidArgumentException]
Command "migrate:make" is not defined.
Did you mean one of these?
    migrate:reset
    migrate:refresh
    migrate:status
    migrate:rollback
    migrate:install
    migrate

Help anyone?

3 Answers

Matthew Bingham
Matthew Bingham
11,927 Points
Matthew Bingham
Matthew Bingham
11,927 Points

Never mind - I've just read the Laravel 5 docs and the following statement works:

php artisan make:migration create_todo_lists_table --create=todo_lists
  • Change migrate:make to make:migration
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Awesome! FYI if you're not creating a new table you can pass in a flag of:

--table=todo_lists

I always find that helpful :)

Laracasts have created a really nice package that extends the laravel 5 generators. You canapply schema from the command line, as well as other cool things. Just follow the instructions on the github page!

Laravel 5 Extended Generators

David Accomazzo
David Accomazzo
15,986 Points
David Accomazzo
David Accomazzo
15,986 Points

I still had an error running php artisan migrate after running make:migration on laravel 5.6.

Fixed it by running php artisan migrate:fresh which gave me the following message:

Dropped all tables successfully. Migration table created successfully. Migrating: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table Migrated: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table Migrating: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table Migrated: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table Migrating: 2018_05_29_032031_create_todo_lists_table Migrated: 2018_05_29_032031_create_todo_lists_table