Phinx: Simple PHP Database Migrations

Phinx makes it ridiculously 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.

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

Features

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

Supported Adapters

Phinx natively supports the following database adapters:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite
• Microsoft SQL Server

Install & Run

Composer

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

1. Install Composer:

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

2. Require Phinx as a dependency using Composer:

   php composer.phar require robmorgan/phinx
   

3. Install Phinx:

   php composer.phar install
   

4. Execute Phinx:

   php vendor/bin/phinx
   

As a Phar

You can also use the Box application to build Phinx as a Phar archive (https://box-project.github.io/box2/).

1. Clone Phinx from GitHub

   git clone git://github.com/robmorgan/phinx.git
   cd phinx
   

2. Install Composer

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

3. Install the Phinx dependencies

   php composer.phar install
   

4. Install Box:

   curl -LSs https://box-project.github.io/box2/installer.php | php
   

5. Create a Phar archive

   php box.phar build
   

Documentation

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

Contributing

Please read the CONTRIBUTING document.

News & Updates

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

Misc

Version History

0.5.1 (Wednesday, 30th December 2015)

• PHP 5.3 is no longer supported!
• Add support for Symfony 3.0 components
• Ensure that the status command returns the correct exit code
• Allow $version to be passed into templates
• Support for MySQL YEAR column type
• Multiple documentation updates and corrections

0.5.0 (Monday, 30th November 2015)

• Support for seeding data after database creation
• The migration and seed directories are now nested under db by default
• Moved Phinx\Migration\Util to Phinx\Util\Util
• All insert() methods now have a slightly different method signature
• Fixed key/insert operations for MySQL
• Introduced AdapterInterface::hasIndexByName()
• Improved dropForeignKey() handling for SQLite
• Added support for the MySQL binary datatype. BLOBs now use the proper type.
• The status command shows a count of pending migrations in JSON output
• We are now testing against PHP 7

0.4.6 (Friday, 11th September 2015)

• You can now set custom migration templates in the config files
• Support for MySQL unsigned booleans
• Support for Postgres smallint column types
• Support for AFTER when using changeColumn() with MySQL
• Support for precision and scale when using the Postgres decimal type
• Fixed a bug where duplicate migration names could be used
• The schema table is now created with a primary key
• Fixed issues when using the MySQL STRICT_TRANS_TABLE mode
• Improved the docs in the default migration template
• Made Box PHAR ignore the bundled phinx.yml configuration file
• Updated Box installer URL
• Internal code improvements
• Documentation improvements

0.4.5 (Tuesday, 1st September 2015)

• The rollback command now supports a date argument
• Fixed DBLIB DSN strings for Microsoft SQL Server
• Postgres support for jsonb columns added
• The addTimestamps() helper method no longer updates the created_at column
• Fix for Postgres named foreign keys
• Unit test improvements (including strict warnings)
• Documentation improvements

0.4.4 (Sunday, 14th June 2015)

• The change method is now the default
• Added a generic adapter insert method. Warning: The implementation will change!
• Updated Symfony depdencies to ~2.7
• Support for MySQL BLOB column types
• SQLite migration fixes
• Documentation improvements

0.4.3 (Monday, 23rd Feburary 2015)

• Postgres bugfix for modifying column DEFAULTs
• MySQL bugfix for setting column INTEGER lengths
• SQLite bugfix for creating multiple indexes with similar names

0.4.2.1 (Saturday, 7th Feburary 2015)

• Proper release, updated docs

0.4.2 (Friday, 6th Feburary 2015)

• Postgres support for json columns added
• MySQL support for enum and set columns added
• Allow setting identity option on columns
• Template configuration and generation made more extensible
• Created a base class for ProxyAdapter and TablePrefixAdapter
• Switched to PSR-4

0.4.1 (Tuesday, 23rd December 2014)

• MySQL support for reserved words in hasColumn and getColumns methods
• Better MySQL Adapter test coverage and performance fixes
• Updated dependent Symfony components to 2.6.x

0.4.0 (Sunday, 14th December 2014)

• Adding initial support for running Phinx via a web interface
• Support for table prefixes and suffixes
• Bugfix for foreign key options
• MySQL keeps column default when renaming columns
• MySQL support for tiny/medium and longtext columns added
• Changed SQL Server binary columns to varbinary
• MySQL supports table comments
• Postgres supports column comments
• Empty strings are now supported for default column values
• Booleans are now supported for default column values
• Fixed SQL Server default constraint error when changing column types
• Migration timestamps are now created in UTC
• Locked Symfony Components to 2.5.0
• Support for custom migration base classes
• Cleaned up source code formatting
• Migrations have access to the output stream
• Support for custom PDO connections when a PHP config
• Added support for Postgres UUID type
• Fixed issue with Postgres dropping foreign keys

0.3.8 (Sunday, 5th October 2014)

• Added new CHAR & Geospatial column types
• Added MySQL unix socket support
• Added precision & scale support for SQL Server
• Several bug fixes for SQLite
• Improved error messages
• Overall code optimizations
• Optimizations to MySQL hasTable method

0.3.7 (Tuesday, 12th August 2014)

• Smarter configuration file support
• Support for Postgres Schemas
• Fixed charset support for Microsoft SQL Server
• Fix for Unique indexes in all adapters
• Improvements for MySQL foreign key migration syntax
• Allow MySQL column types with extra info
• Fixed SQLite autoincrement behaviour
• PHPDoc improvements
• Documentation improvements
• Unit test improvements
• Removing primary_key as a type

0.3.6 (Sunday, 29th June 2014)

• Add custom adapter support
• Fix PHP 5.3 compatibility for SQL Server

0.3.5 (Saturday, 21st June 2014)

• Added Microsoft SQL Server support
• Removed Primary Key column type
• Cleaned up and optimized many methods
• Updated Symfony dependencies to v2.5.0
• PHPDoc improvements

0.3.4 (Sunday, 27th April 2014)

• Added support MySQL unsigned integer, biginteger, float and decimal types
• Added JSON output support for the status command
• Fix a bug where Postgres couldnt rollback foreign keys
• Moved Phinx type references to interface constants
• Fixed a bug with SQLite in-memory databases

0.3.3 (Saturday, 22nd March 2014)

• Added support for JSON configuration
• Named index support for all adapters (thanks @archer308)
• Updated Composer dependencies
• Fix for SQLite Integer Type
• Fix for MySQL port option

0.3.2 (Monday, 24th February 2014)

• Adding better Postgres type support

0.3.1 (Sunday, 23rd February 2014)

• Adding MySQL charset support to the YAML config
• Removing trailing spaces

0.3.0 (Sunday, 2nd February 2014)

• PSR-2 support
• Method to add timestamps easily to tables
• Support for column comments in the Postgres adapter
• Fixes for MySQL driver options
• Fixes for MySQL biginteger type

0.2.9 (Saturday, 16th November 2013)

• Added SQLite Support
• Improving the unit tests, especially on Windows

0.2.8 (Sunday, 25th August 2013)

• Added PostgresSQL Support

0.2.7 (Saturday, 24th August 2013)

• Critical fix for a token parsing bug
• Removed legacy build system
• Improving docs

0.2.6 (Saturday, 24th August 2013)

• Added support for environment vars in config files
• Added support for environment vars to set the Phinx Env
• Improving docs
• Fixed a bug with column names in indexes
• Changes for developers in regards to the unit tests

0.2.5 (Sunday, 26th May 2013)

• Added support for Box Phar Archive Packaging
• Added support for MYSQL_ATTR driver options
• Fixed a bug where foreign keys cannot be removed
• Added support for MySQL table collation
• Updated Composer dependencies
• Removed verbosity options, now relies on Symfony instead
• Improved unit tests

0.2.4 (Saturday, 20th April 2013)

• The Rollback command supports the verbosity parameter
• The Rollback command has more detailed output
• Table::dropForeignKey now returns the table instance

0.2.3 (Saturday, 6th April 2013)

• Fixed a reporting bug when Phinx couldn't connect to a database
• Added support for the MySQL 'ON UPDATE' function
• Phinx timestamp is now mapped to MySQL timestamp instead of datetime
• Fixed a docs typo for the minimum PHP version
• Added UTF8 support for migrations
• Changed regex to handle migration names differently
• Added support for custom MySQL table engines such as MyISAM
• Added the change method to the migration template

0.2.2 (Sunday, 3rd March 2013)

• Added a new verbosity parameter to see more output when migrating
• Support for PHP config files

0.2.1 (Sunday, 3rd March 2013)

• Broken Release. Do not use!
• Unit tests no longer rely on the default phinx.yml file
• Running migrate for the first time does not give php warnings
• default_migration_table is now actually supported
• Updated docblocks to 2013.

0.2.0 (Sunday, 13th January 2013)

• First Birthday Release
• Added Reversible Migrations
• Removed options parameter from AdapterInterface::hasColumn()

0.1.7 (Tuesday, 8th January 2013)

• Improved documentation on the YAML configuration file
• Removed options parameter from AdapterInterface::dropIndex()

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) 2015 Rob Morgan

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