Phinx: Simple PHP Database Migrations

Phinx makes it ridiculousy easy to manage the database migrations for your PHP app. In less than 5 minutes you can install Phinx and create your first database migration. Phinx is just about migrations without all the bloat of a database ORM system or framework.

Phinx lets you

• Write database migrations using database agnostic PHP code.
• Migrate up and down.
• Migrate on deployment.
• Get going in less than 5 minutes.
• Stop worrying about the state of your database.
• Take advantage of SCM features such as branching.

Compared with other tools, Phinx does not…

• Write log files. The screen is better.
• Try to do too much. Migrations only.
• Have unreadable source code. We aim to be transparent.
• Rely on a framework. Phinx is independent. Use it with any app.
• Support anything other than MySQL. Feel free to fork and contribute if you desire.

Install & Run

The fastest way to install Phinx in your project is using Composer (http://getcomposer.org/).

1. Install composer:

   curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
   

2. Add Phinx as a dependency to your composer.json file:

   {
       "require": {
           "robmorgan/phinx": "*"
       }
   }

3. Install Phinx:

   php composer.phar install
   

4. Execute Phinx:

   php vendor/bin/phinx
   

Documentation

Check out http://docs.phinx.org for the comprehensive documentation.

Contributing

Start by forking Phinx on GitHub: https://github.com/robmorgan/phinx

Next setup your environment for development:

• curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
• php composer.phar install --dev

News & Updates

Follow Rob (@rjm) on Twitter to stay to date (http://twitter.com/_rjm_)

Misc

Version History

0.1.6 (Sunday, 9th December 2012)

• Added foreign key support
• Removed PEAR support
• Support for auto_increment on custom id columns
• Bugfix for column default value 0
• Documentation improvements

0.1.5 (Sunday, 4th November 2012)

• Added a test command
• Added transactions for adapters that support it
• Changing the Table API to use pending column methods
• Fixed a bug when defining multiple indexes on a table

0.1.4 (Sunday, 21st October 2012)

• Documentation Improvements

0.1.3 (Saturday, 20th October 2012)

• Fixed broken composer support

0.1.2 (Saturday, 20th October 2012)

• Added composer support
• Now forces migrations to be in CamelCase format
• Now specifies the database name when migrating
• Creates the internal log table using its API instead of raw SQL

0.1.1 (Wednesday, 13th June 2012)

• First point release. Ready for limited production use.

0.1.0 (Friday, 13th January 2012)

• Initial public release.

License

(The MIT license)

Copyright (c) 2012 Rob Morgan

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