How do I use migrations and seeders in Laravel?

How do I use migrations and seeders in Laravel?

In Laravel, migrations are used to create and modify database tables, while seeders are used to populate those tables with data.

Can you show me an example of a migration?

Sure! A simple migration to create a 'users' table would look like this:

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

class CreateUsersTable extends Migration {
    public function up() {
        Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    public function down() {
        Schema::dropIfExists('users');
    }
}

What about seeders? How do I create one?

To create a seeder, you can use the Artisan command: php artisan make:seeder UsersTableSeeder. Then, in the run method, you can insert data like this:

public function run() {
    DB::table('users')->insert([
        ['name' => 'John Doe', 'email' => '[email protected]'],
        ['name' => 'Jane Doe', 'email' => '[email protected]'],
    ]);
}

How do I run the migrations and seeders?

You can run migrations with php artisan migrate and seed the database with php artisan db:seed. You can also combine them using php artisan migrate --seed.