Laravel 4 cannot run whole RAW queries

Question

I would like to use the DB class of laravel to execute a mysql query but none of the functions provided by Laravel are working.

None of those is working: DB::statment()

Answer 1

What about this code? I find it pretty usefull to use migrations & db seeding - especialy for deployment.

Schema::create('users', function($table){
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('u_username');
    $table->string('u_email');
    $table->string('password');
    $table->datetime('u_regdate');
    $table->date('u_birthday');
    $table->integer('u_lastlogin');
    $table->integer('u_logcout')->default(0);
    $table->tinyinteger('u_level')->default(0);
    $table->tinyinteger('u_language')->default(0);
    $table->tinyinteger('u_status')->default(0);
    $table->tinyinteger('u_gender')->default(0);
});


// Repeat this for other users as well
User::create([
    'u_username' =>     'admin',
    'u_email' =>        'admin@example.com',
    'password' =>       Hash::make('users-password'),
    'u_regdate' =>      date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
    'u_birthday' =>     '1980-01-01',
    'u_lastlogin' =>    0,
    'u_logcout' =>      0,
    'u_level' =>        9,
    'u_language' =>     0,
    'u_status' =>       0,
    'u_gender' =>       0,
]);

Answer 2

Drop the users table from database then try this and let me know whether it works or not:

DB::insert('CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `u_username` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `u_email` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `password` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `u_regdate` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `u_birthday` date NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00',
  `u_lastlogin` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `u_logcout` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `u_level` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `u_language` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `u_status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `u_gender` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci');

//and so on for all the other queries.

Answer 3

Executing SQL Code just like the one I provided in the question can be executed using

DB::unprepared( $code );

I hope this helps the people with the same issue i had :D

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