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## Overview

There are times when we will manually edit our table structure in our database for urgent reasons. We will then want to incorporate it into our migration files to migrate it later, while deploying on a live server.

To achieve this, we have to install a Laravel package called **`Laravel-migration-generator`**.

## Step 1
### Installation
Run the below command to install the package:
```
composer require --dev bennett-treptow/laravel-migration-generator
```
## Step 2
### Publish configuration
You also run the below command to publish the config files we will be using.
```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="LaravelMigrationGenerator\LaravelMigrationGeneratorProvider"
```
## Step 3
```
composer require --dev bennett-treptow/laravel-migration-generator
```

## Step 4
### Package registration
Add the following to your  `bootstrap/app.php` file to register in the service provider.
```
$app->register(\LaravelMigrationGenerator\LaravelMigrationGeneratorProvider::class); 
``` 


## Step 5
### Usage
To generate the migration file of your database, you run the below command:

```
php artisan generate:migrations
```
By default, the file will go to `tests/database/migrations` to specify the path using the command:
```
php artisan generate:migrations --path=database/migrations

```
Where the `database/migrations` represents the path of your choice.


How to generate migration files from an existing database

Install Laravel-migration-generator, publish configurations, register the package, and use artisan commands to generate migration files for database changes.