Laravel Migrations and Relationships

In this episode of our quiz app tutorial series, we will dive into Laravel migrations and relationships. Migrations are a way to manage your database schema using code, while relationships in Laravel are used to define how different database tables are related to each other.

What are Migrations?

Laravel migrations allow you to define your database schema in code, and then run those migrations to make changes to the database. This provides a way to version control your database schema and make it easy to share with other developers.

To create a migration in Laravel, you can use the php artisan make:migration command, which will generate a new migration file for you to edit. Inside the migration file, you can define the structure of the database table, including the columns and indexes.

Defining Relationships in Laravel

Once you have your database tables defined using migrations, you can then define relationships between the tables using Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. There are several types of relationships you can define, including one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many.

To define a relationship in Laravel, you can use the belongsTo, hasMany, or belongsToMany methods on your Eloquent model class. These methods allow you to specify how one table is related to another, and Laravel will take care of the rest for you.

Putting It All Together

In our quiz app, we will use migrations to define the structure of our database tables, and relationships to define how those tables are related to each other. This will allow us to easily store and retrieve quiz questions, answers, and user responses in our database.

Stay tuned for the next episode, where we will start building out the front-end of our quiz app using Inertia Js and Vue Js.