Laravel running migrations on "app/database/migrations" folder recursively

Question

So my migrations folder looks like this since I have dozens of tables it keeps things organized and clean:

migrations/
  create_user_table.php
  relations/
  translations/

I'm trying to do a refresh all migrations and seed but it seems like I've run into a slight hiccup where I don't know the artisan command to run migrations recursively (i.e. run migrations in the relations and translations folders as well).

I've tried adding --path="app/database/migrations/*" however it spat out an error. Does anyone know the solution to this?

Answer 1

The only way to do it right now is to manually go through all the migrations. That is, you have to run the migration command on each of your subfolders:

php artisan migrate --path=/app/database/migrations/relations  
php artisan migrate --path=/app/database/migrations/translations

However, what you can do is easily extend the artisan system to write your own migrate command that will iterate through all folders under the migrations folder, create these commands for you and run them.

You can also simply write a shell script if you don't want to get into doing this via artisan

Edit: for Laravel >= 5.0, the correct commands to migrate migration files in sub directories would be:

php artisan migrate --path=/database/migrations/relations
php artisan migrate --path=/database/migrations/translations

Answer 2

This add to boot method in AppServiceProvider

$mainPath = database_path('migrations');
$directories = glob($mainPath . '/*' , GLOB_ONLYDIR);
$paths = array_merge([$mainPath], $directories);

$this->loadMigrationsFrom($paths);

Now you use can php artisan migrate and also php artisan migrate:back

Answer 3

You can also use a wildcard, like so:

php artisan migrate --path=/database/migrations/*