Laravel 5.2 - Create Database table from a Controller

Question

Apologies if this have been asked, but I don't seem to find the right answer.

I need to create a table in the DB from a Controller.

I was naive enough to believe the below would work:

    Schema::connection('mysql')->create('mytable_'.$id, function($table)
    {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->timestamps();
    });

Where $id is a dynamic value passed into the controller's function.

I've placed the below on the top:

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

No luck - How can a DB table be created from the controller then? Any ideas?

Error:

Solution As Ben Swinburne has said in the first comment, the use Schema was missing!

Answer 1

You're using the Schema facade.

Make sure you have use Schema; at the top of your file too.