Altering a migration

Migration workflows are one more thing that makes Laravel such a great framework for teams as well as the lone developer. In this recipe, we are going to show the proper way to change a migration.

Getting ready

Even a fresh install will get you started, we just need a migration and then we will alter it. In this case, we are going to alter the users table.

How to do it....

Follow these steps to alter the users table:

1. Inside Vagrant, run your migration if you have not already. We talked about setting up Vagrant in Chapter 1, Setting Up and Installing Laravel.

2. Then type:

   >php artisan make:migration alter_users_table_add_twitter_name_field
   

3. Now you will have the file in your database/migrations folder—edit that so it looks like the following:

   

4. Then we need to modify it to add the actual logic to alter the table users. In this case by adding a field:

   

5. Then run the migration:

   >php artisan migrate
   

6. That's it, you now have a new field to save twitter names too!

How it works…

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