Database exporter to Laravel 5

This is database table structure and data exporter to migration and seed files for Laravel 5

Table of content

• Features
• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• License

Features

• create migration files from database table structure
• handle foreign keys (watch for recursive foreign keys)
• create model files from database table structure (even foreign keys)
• organize generated models depending on database tabla name to individual namespace and directory structure via regular expressions
• create seed files from database table content

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Installation

Base

To composer.json file add following lines:

// to "require" object
"vi-kon/laravel-db-exporter": "~1.*"

Or run following command in project root:

composer require vi-kon/laravel-db-exporter

In Laravel 5 project add following lines to app.php:

// to providers array
'ViKon\DbExporter\DbExporterServiceProvider',

Configuration and migration

Installing configuration and migration files simple run:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ViKon\DbExporter\DbExporterServiceProvider"

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Configuration

Configuration files help set up default values for commands.

return [
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default connection name
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Database connection name. Valid connection names are defined in
    | database.php. If value is null default connection is used.
    |
    */
    'connection' => null,
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default table prefix
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | This table prefix is used in generated migration files or in generated
    | models.
    |
    */
    'prefix'     => '',
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default selected tables
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Select specified database tables only. No work with ignore option
    | together. In commands with --select option can add another tables.
    |
    */
    'select'     => [],
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default ignored tables
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Ignore specified database tables. No work with select option together.
    | In commands with --ignore option can add another tables.
    |
    */
    'ignore'     => [
        'migrations',
    ],
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Model options
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'model'      => [
        /*
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Default namespace
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Namespace for generated models. In command with --namespace option can
        | overwrite.
        |
        */
        'namespace' => 'App\Models',
        /*
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Default path
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Generated models destination path. Is relative to projects base path. In
        | command with --path option can overwrite.
        |
        */
        'path'      => app_path('Models'),
        /*
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Custom map
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Map is useful for organizing generated models to multiple namespaces and
        | directories. Each map entry is array with following associative keys:
        |
        | * tablePattern - regex pattern for selecting tables by name
        | * namespace    - generated models namespace from selected tables
        | * path         - generated models destination path from selected tables
        | * className    - array containing pattern and replacement for preg_match
        |                  to generate models class name from table name. If value
        |                  is null original table name is used. The result is camel
        |                  cased. The subject table name is snake cased
        |
        */
        'map'       => [
//            [
//                'tablePattern' => '.*',
//                'namespace'    => 'App\Models',
//                'path'         => 'app/Models',
//                'className'    => [
//                    'pattern'     => '',
//                    'replacement' => '',
//                ],
//            ],
        ],
    ],
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Migration options
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'migration'  => [
        /*
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Default path
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Generated migration destination path. Is relative to projects base path.
        | In command with --path option can overwrite.
        |
        */
        'path' => base_path('database/migrations'),
    ],
    /*
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Seed options
    | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    */
    'seed'       => [
        /*
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Default path
        | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Generated seed destination path. Is relative to projects base path.
        | In command with --path option can overwrite.
        |
        */
        'path' => base_path('database/seeds'),
    ],
];

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Usages

Note: Generated files may need some auto-formatting.

Creating migration files

The db-exporter:migrate command is used for creating migration files from database. It has several options:

• prefix - database name prefix in migration files
• select - array of selected database table names (if set ignore option is ignored)
• ignore - array of ignored database table names
• database - specify database connection name (if option is not set the default connection is used)
• force - force overwriting existing migration files
• path - output destination path relative to project root (default is {PROJECT ROOT}/database/migrations)

Note: Model path given by migration.path config key have to be writable by PHP to generate models.

The example assumes following database tables:

• users
• groups
• pages with foreign key to user id

Exports all tables from default database:

php artisan db-exporter:migrate

The above command will generate following files into {PROJECT ROOT}/database/migrations directory:

YYYY-MM-DD_000000_create_users_table.php
YYYY-MM-DD_000001_create_groups_table.php
YYYY-MM-DD_000002_create_pages_table.php

Note: Table names and column names are converted to snake cased.

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Creating models

The db-exporter:models command is used for creating models from database. It has several options:

• prefix - database name prefix in migration files
• select - array of selected database table names (if set ignore option is ignored)
• ignore - array of ignored database table names
• connection - specify database connection name (if option is not set the default connection is used)
• force - force overwriting existing migration files
• namespace - models namespace (default is App\Models)
• path - output destination path relative to project root (default is {PROJECT ROOT}/database/migrations)

Note: Some situation foreign methods name can match in models, so manual renaming is needed.

Note: In some cases relation guess (One to One, Many to One, One to Many) can generate same method names in single class.

Note: Model path given by model.path config key have to be writable by PHP to generate models.

Creating models from default database:

php artisan db-exporter:models

Creating seed files

The db-exporter:seed command is used for creating seeds from database data. It has several options:

• prefix - database name prefix in migration files
• select - array of selected database table names (if set ignore option is ignored)
• ignore - array of ignored database table names
• connection - specify database connection name (if option is not set the default connection is used)
• force - force overwriting existing migration files
• path - output destination path relative to project root (default is database/seeds)

Note: Seed path given by seed.path config key have to be writable by PHP to generate seed classes.

Creating seed files from default database:

php artisan db-exporter:seed

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License

This package is licensed under the MIT License

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