# [Phinx](https://phinx.org): Simple PHP Database Migrations

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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.**

![phinxterm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/178939/3887559/e6b5e524-21f2-11e4-8256-0ba6040725fc.gif)

### Features

* Write database migrations using database agnostic PHP code.
* Migrate up and down.
* Migrate on deployment.
* Seed data after database creation.
* 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/).

1. Install Composer:

    ```
    curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    ```

1. Require Phinx as a dependency using Composer:

    ```
    php composer.phar require robmorgan/phinx
    ```

1. Install Phinx:

    ```
    php composer.phar install
    ```

1. Execute Phinx:

    ```
    php vendor/bin/phinx
    ```

### As a Phar

You can also use the Box application to build Phinx as a Phar archive (https://box-project.github.io/box2/).

1. Clone Phinx from GitHub

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

1. Install Composer

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

1. Install the Phinx dependencies

    ```
    php composer.phar install
    ```

1. Install Box:

    ```
    curl -LSs https://box-project.github.io/box2/installer.php | php
    ```

1. Create a Phar archive

    ```
    php box.phar build
    ```

## Documentation

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

## Contributing

Please read the [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) document.

## News & Updates

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

## Misc

### Version History

**0.5.3** (Monday, 7th March 2016)

* Critical fix: allow `migration_name` to be `null`. Introduced in 0.5.2
* Status command now shows migration start and end times
* Bug fix for rolling back by date
* Documentation improvements

**0.5.2** (Tuesday, 1st March 2016)

* Status command now includes missing migration names
* Added support for Postgres table comments
* Added `insert()` for the TablePrefixAdapter
* Fixed the migration verbosity flag
* Added MySQL 5.7 JSON support
* Added support for MySQL `FULLTEXT` indexes
* Postgres now supports `BIGSERIAL` for primary keys
* Added support for MySQL index limits
* Initial support for multiple migration paths (using glob)
* Documentation improvements
* Unit test enhancements

**0.5.1** (Wednesday, 30th December 2015)

* **PHP 5.3 is no longer supported!**
* Add support for Symfony 3.0 components
* Ensure that the `status` command returns the correct exit code
* Allow `$version` to be passed into templates
* Support for MySQL `YEAR` column type
* Multiple documentation updates and corrections

**0.5.0** (Monday, 30th November 2015)

* Support for seeding data after database creation
* The migration and seed directories are now nested under `db` by default
* Moved `Phinx\Migration\Util` to `Phinx\Util\Util`
* All `insert()` methods now have a slightly different method signature
* Fixed key/insert operations for MySQL
* Introduced `AdapterInterface::hasIndexByName()`
* Improved `dropForeignKey()` handling for SQLite
* Added support for the MySQL `binary` datatype. BLOBs now use the proper type.
* The status command shows a count of pending migrations in JSON output
* We are now testing against PHP 7

**0.4.6** (Friday, 11th September 2015)

* You can now set custom migration templates in the config files
* Support for MySQL unsigned booleans
* Support for Postgres `smallint` column types
* Support for `AFTER` when using `changeColumn()` with MySQL
* Support for `precision` and `scale` when using the Postgres `decimal` type
* Fixed a bug where duplicate migration names could be used
* The schema table is now created with a primary key
* Fixed issues when using the MySQL `STRICT_TRANS_TABLE` mode
* Improved the docs in the default migration template
* Made Box PHAR ignore the bundled `phinx.yml` configuration file
* Updated Box installer URL
* Internal code improvements
* Documentation improvements

**0.4.5** (Tuesday, 1st September 2015)

* The rollback command now supports a date argument
* Fixed DBLIB DSN strings for Microsoft SQL Server
* Postgres support for `jsonb` columns added
* The `addTimestamps()` helper method no longer updates the `created_at` column
* Fix for Postgres named foreign keys
* Unit test improvements (including strict warnings)
* Documentation improvements

**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)

Copyright (c) 2015 Rob Morgan

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