How do I run migrations for a specific environment in laravel

Question

I\'m setting up a new app with laravel (Laravel 4), and having some issues setting up the database via migrations.

I made a migration file with:

artisan          


        

Answer 1

I figured out a solution to run migrate for different databases. Basically, the command artisan migrate --env=local doesn't work. But we can define a new connection string in config\database.php. For example:

 [
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => env('DB_TESTING_HOST'),
        'database'  => env('DB_TESTING_DATABASE'),
        'username'  => env('DB_TESTING_USERNAME'),
        'password'  => env('DB_TESTING_PASSWORD'),
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => 'prefix_',
    ],

And specify the --database when we run artisan migrate like this:

php artisan migrate --database=mysql_testing

Hope this helps :)