Altering a migration

Migration workflows are one more thing that makes Laravel such a great framework for teams as well as the lone developer. In this recipe, we are going to show the proper way to change a migration.

Getting ready

Even a fresh install will get you started, we just need a migration and then we will alter it. In this case, we are going to alter the users table.

How to do it....

Follow these steps to alter the users table:

  1. Inside Vagrant, run your migration if you have not already. We talked about setting up Vagrant in Chapter 1, Setting Up and Installing Laravel.
  2. Then type:
    >php artisan make:migration alter_users_table_add_twitter_name_field
  3. Now you will have the file in your database/migrations folder—edit that so it looks like the ...

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