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.
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/).

Install Composer:

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

Require Phinx as a dependency using Composer:
```
php composer.phar 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

Please read the CONTRIBUTING document.

News & Updates

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

Misc

Version History

0.4.4 (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)

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

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