While working on a recent project using Laravel I felt the need for a quick startover command, as we were brainstorming with domain objects and businees logic our migrations were changing frequently. So after each pull/change in migration I needed to reset the migrations, remigrate, seed database with updated seeder classes.

So I looked into creating a simple artisan command. The command is fairly straight forward, I am including the code for the command below.

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<?php

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputArgument;

class StartOverCommand extends Command {

  /**
  * The console command name.
  *
  * @var string
  */
  protected $name = 'appname:startover';

  /**
  * The console command description.
  *
  * @var string
  */
  protected $description = 'Reset Migration, remigrate, seed and Start Over';

  /**
  * Execute the console command.
  *
  * @return mixed
  */
  public function fire()
  {
      $this->info("Resetting the Migration.....");
        $this->call('migrate:reset');
        $this->info("Recreating schemas....");
        $this->call('migrate');
        $this->info('Seeding data.....');
        $this->call('db:seed');

  }
}

Only the relevant parts of the file is included here. BTW, you can create a boiler plate command using the php artisan command:make StartOverCommand command from terminal.

the name you set above will be the actual command, I have set it like appname:startover Its always a good practice to namespace things whenever possible.

Then the method that gets fired when the command is exectuted from terminal is fire() method. It does the same things I stated above which I did manually earlier.

After you add this file in app/commands/ directory of your laravel installation, you have to add the command by adding the line Artisan::add(new StartOverCommand); on your app/start/artisan.php file.

After all the above steps are done you can use it like php artisan appname:startover and it will reset migration, migrate migrations and then seed the tables.

Thanks for bearing with me. Hope you enjoyed it!

Complete command file code