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Inside this article we will understand CakePHP 4 Migrations Rollback in Non Shell Environment. Article contains classified information about executing migrations rollback for database.

Non Shell Environment means executing functions without using shell / terminal etc.

Migrations are those files which creates table schema for application. In CakePHP 4, we have a class available Migrations. We will use methods of this class to run migrations, check migration status, migrations rollback in non shell environment.

Rollback is the process to drop or remove table schema from database.

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Let’s get started.

CakePHP 4 Installation

To create a CakePHP project, run this command into your shell or terminal. Make sure composer should be installed in your system.

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app:~4.0 mycakephp

Above command will creates a project with the name called mycakephp.

Database Connection

Open app_local.php file from /config folder. Search for Datasources. Go to default array of it.

You can add your connection details here to connect with your database. It will be like this –

//...

'Datasources' => [
        'default' => [
            'host' => 'localhost',
            /*
             * CakePHP will use the default DB port based on the driver selected
             * MySQL on MAMP uses port 8889, MAMP users will want to uncomment
             * the following line and set the port accordingly
             */
            //'port' => 'non_standard_port_number',

            'username' => 'root',
            'password' => 'sample@123',

            'database' => 'mydatabase',
            /*
             * If not using the default 'public' schema with the PostgreSQL driver
             * set it here.
             */
            //'schema' => 'myapp',

            /*
             * You can use a DSN string to set the entire configuration
             */
            'url' => env('DATABASE_URL', null),
        ],
  
     //...

//...

You can pass host, username, password and database.

Successfully, you are now connected with the database.

Migrations Rollback

To Run migrations rollback in non shell environment, follow these steps.

Use & Load Migrations Class
Call Migrations Methods

Use & Load Migrations Class

Inside you controller or wherever you are running migrations, you can import this class.

use Migrations\Migrations;

Next, we need to create an instance / object of this class to use it’s methods.

$migrations = new Migrations();

Call Migration Methods

To check migration’s status like they executed or not, we have a status() method. It returns an array of all migrations and their status.

There are two types of status flags in migrations.

“up” status means migration migrated and will be available in phinxlog table. “down” status means migration rollback and table removed from database.

$status = $migrations->status();

To Rollback Migrations file we use rollback() method.

$migrate = $migrations->rollback();

It will return true if success. If an error occurred, an exception will be thrown. It drop tables step by step to it’s previous versions.

We hope this article helped you to learn about CakePHP 4 Migrations Rollback in Non Shell Environment Tutorial in a very detailed way.

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