Laravel: Run migrations on another database

Question

In my app every user has its own database that created when user registered. Connection and database data (database name, username, password) are saved in a table in default

Answer 1

In your app/config/database.php you have to:

<?php
return array(

    'default' => 'mysql',

    'connections' => array(

        # Our primary database connection
        'mysql' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => 'host1',
            'database'  => 'database1',
            'username'  => 'user1',
            'password'  => 'pass1'
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        ),

        # Our secondary database connection
        'mysql2' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => 'host2',
            'database'  => 'database2',
            'username'  => 'user2',
            'password'  => 'pass2'
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        ),
    ),
);

Now that you prepared two database connections in your migration you can do:

Schema::connection('mysql2')->create('some_table', function($table)
{
    $table->increments('id');
});

This should work. More infos on: http://fideloper.com/laravel-multiple-database-connections

Answer 2

If you place database config on the database.php file, this can help you:

php artisan migrate --database=**otherDatabase**