Building RESTful Web Services with PHP 7

Setting up the database

We need to set up our database for the blog. In fact, we already did set this up in Chapter 3, Creating Restful Endpoints. We can use that database here as well. In fact, we will have the same DB structure, so we can easily use the same DB, but this is not recommended. In Lumen, we use migrations to create DB structure. It is not mandatory but it is useful so you can write migration once and use it to create DB structure anywhere. This purpose can be served by SQL files but the beauty of migration is that it works across different RDBMS as well. So create a DB manually, and name it blog. Now, we will write migration for structure.