How to create a new database table using CakePHP's schema tool?

@dalton_moen 

To create a new database table using CakePHP's schema tool, you can follow these steps:

1. Open the terminal/command prompt and navigate to the root directory of your CakePHP application.
2. Run the following command to generate a new migration file:

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bin/cake bake migration CreateTableName

Replace TableName with the name of the table you want to create. This will generate a new migration file in the config/Migrations directory.

1. Open the migration file in your code editor and define the table schema using the createTable method. For example:

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public function up()
{
    $table = $this->table('table_name');
    $table
        ->addColumn('id', 'integer', ['autoIncrement' => true, 'signed' => false])
        ->addColumn('name', 'string', ['limit' => 255])
        ->addColumn('created', 'datetime')
        ->addColumn('modified', 'datetime')
        ->addIndex(['name'], ['unique' => true])
        ->create();
}

This will create a table with columns id, name, created, and modified. The id column is an auto-incrementing primary key, and the name column has a unique index.

1. Run the migration to create the table in the database by executing the following command:

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bin/cake migrations migrate

This will run all the pending migrations and create the new table in the database.

You can now use the table in your CakePHP application by creating a corresponding model and adding associations to other models as needed.

@dalton_moen 

To create a new database table using CakePHP's schema tool, you can follow the steps below:

Step 1: Create a new file in the config directory of your CakePHP application, named schema.php.

Step 2: In the schema.php file, define the schema for the new table using CakePHP's schema definition format. For example, to create a table named users with columns for id, username, password, and created, you could use the following code:

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<?php
// config/schema.php
return [
    'users' => [
        'id' => ['type' => 'integer', 'null' => false, 'autoIncrement' => true, 'length' => 11],
        'username' => ['type' => 'string', 'null' => false, 'length' => 255],
        'password' => ['type' => 'string', 'null' => false, 'length' => 255],
        'created' => ['type' => 'datetime', 'null' => false],
        '_constraints' => ['primary' => ['type' => 'primary', 'columns' => ['id']]]
    ]
];

Step 3: Run the cake schema create command from the command line to create the new table in the database:

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$ cake schema create

This will create the users table in the database with the specified columns.

Note: Make sure you have configured your database connection details in config/app.php file before running the schema create command.