Sometimes, you want to group statements in your migration files. For example, when you want to add 3 new columns to a table and don't want to specify an ->after('...') on every statement. Now you can use the group method!
Lets take the following migration as example:
Schema::table('table', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->string('new_column_a')->nullable()->after('some_old_column');
$table->string('new_column_b')->nullable()->after('new_column_a');
$table->string('new_column_c')->nullable()->after('new_column_b');
});
This can be grouped as follows:
Schema::table('table', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->group(function($group) {
$group->string('new_column_a');
$group->string('new_column_b');
$group->string('new_column_c');
})->nullable()->after('some_old_column');
});
Require this package with composer.
composer require eelcol/laravel-blueprint-group
Laravel 5.5 uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider.
If you don't use auto-discovery, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php
Eelcol\LaravelBlueprintGroup\BlueprintGroupServiceProvider::class,