Use one Laravel migrations table per database
Solution 1:
Article on usage of multiple database usage in Laravel - https://stackcoder.in/posts/laravel-7x-multiple-database-connections-migrations-relationships-querying
Use the --database
parameter with the migrate
command and store the migrations for each database in separate directories.
You could have separate directories in app/database/migrations
for each of your database (in your case db1
and db2
) and store the appropriate migrations in each directory. Then you could run the migrations like this:
artisan migrate --database="db1" --path="app/database/migrations/db1"
artisan migrate --database="db2" --path="app/database/migrations/db2"
This way your migrations
table will be independent for each database.
If you want to go the extra mile and automate the process you could create your custom command that will run all the migrations at once. You can create the command like this (use make:console
for Laravel 5.0 up to 5.2 or make:command
for Laravel 5.2+):
artisan command:make MigrateAllCommand --command=migrate:all
This will create a new file app/commands/MigrateAllCommand.php
. Your command's fire
method would look something like this:
public function fire()
{
foreach (Config::get('database.connections') as $name => $details)
{
$this->info('Running migration for "' . $name . '"');
$this->call('migrate', array('--database' => $name, '--path' => 'app/database/migrations/' . $name));
}
}
This will work provided the name of the database configuration key is the same as the migration directory name. You can then just call it like this:
artisan migrate:all
You can check the Laravel Command Docs for more info.