Yii 2 - Migration generator ¶

1. Integration time and difficulty
2. Requirements
3. Description && How its works
4. Usage
5. Installation instructions
6. Dev notes

• Integration time and difficulty
• Description && How its works
• Usage
• How to install
• Dev notes

Integration time and difficulty ¶

• Around 5 minutes
• Very easy

Requirements ¶

• PHP >= 8.1
• Yii2 >= 2.0.8

Description && How its works ¶

This is an interactive Yii migrate command expansion. It will help you to create basic migrations using question in command line. This extension basically creating commands according Yii documentation https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/db-migrations

Example output:

yii migrate/create create_post_table --fields="title:string,body:text,author_id:integer:notNull:foreignKey(user)"

Usage ¶

php yii migrate

Available options ¶

1. Create table
2. Drop table
3. Add column
4. Drop Column
5. Add Junction Table
6. Redo last
7. Down last
8. Create empty migration
9. Up

Installation instructions ¶

composer require tjura/yii2-migration-helper

Update your console.php config file

'controllerMap' => [
    'migrate' => [
        'class' => \tjura\migration\commands\MigrateController::class,
    ]
]

Dev notes ¶

• This project was created for help me understand how to create good quality opensource extension and also to improve everyday tasks when working on Yii2 projects.

What's next ¶

• Improve code quality and write unit tests
• Release improved version for older php 7.x