Beginning Laravel: Build Websites with Laravel 5.8

© Sanjib Sinha 2019

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5. Database Migration and Eloquent

Sanjib Sinha¹ 

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Howrah, West Bengal, India

 

You can interact with databases using Laravel 5.8 in a simple and expressive way. Either you can use the DB facade, using raw SQL to query your databases, or you can use Eloquent ORM.

Laravel supports four databases.

• MySQL

• PostgreSQL

• SQLite

• SQL Server

You have learned how to configure a database for any application you want to build. The database configuration file is config/database.php. If you want, you can define all your database connections; you can also specify which one will be the default one.

Introduction to Migration

You can easily create and modify your database tables with the ...