Can I import a mysql dump to a laravel migration?

Question

I have a complete database and need to create migration. I guess there must be a way to do it from a dump but not sure. Is there any way automatically or at least easier to

Answer 1

i recently standing in front of the same problem. i didn't want to install a package specially for that, so i decided to write a little tool to help me and others ;)

Here is the link: http://laravel.stonelab.ch/sql-seeder-converter/

And here you can comment it, if you have any improvement proposals or questions: http://www.stonelab.ch/en/sql-to-laravel-seeder-converter/

Answer 2

Laravel can't do that, but I think this will help: Laravel migration generator

It generate migrations based on existing tables.

Answer 3

You can create laravel migration and models directly from database using https://github.com/XCMer/larry-four-generator

Execute the following code after installing the package

php artisan larry:fromdb

Answer 4

You can import dumps in Laravel like this:

DB::unprepared(file_get_contents('full/path/to/dump.sql'));

If I were to refactor an existing app, though, I'd take the time to write migrations from scratch, import the dump into different tables (or a different db, if table names are the same) then import the content to the new structure via seeds.