Migrations

Migrations guide

Migrations are PHP classes containing database schema changesets. These changesets can be applied or reverted to bring the database into a certain state. You might know the concept of migrations from other Frameworks or Symfony as well. Read on to find out how to add your own migrations to Shopware when implementing a plugin.

Adding your own migrations

For Shopware to recognise additional plugin migrations, they need to be placed in the Migration directory under your plugin's source code root directory:

./
+-- SwagExamplePlugin/
    +-- src/
        +-- Migration/
            +-- # Place migrations here
        +-- SwagExamplePlugin.php

Each migration filename follows a pattern described here . To ease plugin development, Shopware provides a console command which can be used to generate a correctly named migration file with the default methods needed. You may use this command to create a migration for your plugin:

php bin/console database:create-migration \
  -p SwagExamplePlugin \
  --name CreateSwagEntity

After running this command, you should find a new migration file under your plugins source code root directory:

./
+-- SwagExamplePlugin/
    +-- src/
        +-- Migration/
            +-- Migration1587651945CreateSwagEntity.php
        +-- SwagExamplePlugin.php

Modifying the database

Now that you've created the migration file, open it in your editor or IDE. There should already be two methods written out, namely update and updateDestructive. The update method may contain only non-destructive changes which can be rolled back at any time. The updateDestructive method should contain destructive changes, which cannot be reversed, like dropping columns or tables.

Let's create a table for testing out the migration, you can use the following example implementation for this:

public function update(Connection $connection): void
{
    $sql = <<<'SQL'
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `swag_example_entity` (
    `id`   BINARY(16)                              NOT NULL,
    `name` VARCHAR(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NULL
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
SQL;

    $connection->executeUpdate($sql);
}

Running the migration

For testing purposes, you can apply the new migration using

this console command

php bin/console database:migrate --all SwagExamplePlugin

If you now have a look at your database, the new swag_example_entity table should have been created.

From now on, this migration will be automatically applied when the plugin is installed, but you may also control this behaviour in detail if you wish to.