Safely remove migration In Laravel

Question

In Laravel, there appears to be a command for creating a migration, but not removing.

Create migration command:

php artisan migrate:make create_users_tab         


        

Answer 1

DO NOT run php artisan migrate:fresh that's gonna drop all the tables

Answer 2

You likely need to delete the entry from the migrations table too.

Answer 3

I agree with the current answers, I just wanna add little more information.

A new feature has been added to Laravel 5.3 and above version that will allow you to back out a single migration:

php artisan migrate:rollback --step=1

after, Manually delete the migration file under database/migrations/my_migration_file_name.php

This is a great feature for when you run a migration

In this way, you can safely remove the migration in laravel only in 2 step

Answer 4

If the migration has been run (read: migrated) then you should roll back your migration to clear the history from your database table. Once you're rolled back you should be able to safely delete your migration file and then proceed with migrating again.

Answer 5

I will rather do it manually

1. Delete the model first (if you don't) need the model any longer
2. Delete the migration from ...database/migrations folder
3. If you have already migrated i.e if you have already run php artisan migrate, log into your phpmyadmin or SQL(whichever the case is) and in your database, delete the table created by the migration
4. Still within your database, in the migrations folder, locate the row with that migration file name and delete the row.

Works for me, hope it helps!

Answer 6

I accidentally created two times create_users_table. It overrided some classes and turned rollback into ErrorException.

What you need to do is find autoload_classmap.php in vendor/composer folder and look for the specific line of code such as

'CreateUsersTable' => $baseDir . '/app/database/migrations/2013_07_04_014051_create_users_table.php',

and edit path. Then your rollback should be fine.