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.

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.

Install & Run

Composer

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

Install Composer:

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

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

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

Install Phinx:
```
php composer.phar install
```
Execute Phinx:
```
php vendor/bin/phinx
```

As a Phar

You can also use the Box application to build Phinx as a Phar archive (http://box-project.org/).

Clone Phinx from GitHub

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

Install Composer

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

Install the Phinx dependencies
```
php composer.phar install
```

Install Box:

curl -s http://box-project.org/installer.php | php

Create a Phar archive
```
php box.phar build
```

Documentation

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

Contributing

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

Clone your repository to a local directory on your development box.

If you do not have Composer set up already, install it:

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

Change to your Phinx clone directory and pull the necessary dependencies:

php composer.phar install --dev

Copy the phpunit.xml.dist template to phpunit.xml and change the configuration to suit your environment.

News & Updates

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

Misc

Version History

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)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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