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E-Commerce 231
10 Schema::create("product", function($table)
11 {
12 $table->engine = "InnoDB";
13
14 $table->increments("id");
15 $table->string("name");
16 $table->integer("stock");
17 $table->float("price");
18 $table->dateTime("created_at");
19 $table->dateTime("updated_at");
20 $table->dateTime("deleted_at");
21 });
22 }
23
24 public function down()
25 {
26 Schema::dropIfExists("product");
27 }
28 }
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This file should be saved as app/database/migrations/nnnn_nn_nn_nnnnnn_CreateProduct-
Table.php.
There’s nothing particularly special about these - we’ve create many of them before. What is
important to note is that we’re calling the traditional user table account.
.
You can learn more about migrations at: http://laravel.com/docs/schema.
The relationships might not yet be apparent, but we’ll see them more clearly in the models…
Creating Models
We need to create the same amount of models. I’ve gone ahead and created them with table names
matching those defined int he migrations. I’ve also added the relationship methods: