Add before method to the migrations

[elisonkaloshi]

It is possible to add the before method to the migrations in Laravel
For example:
I have a table with 10 columns and it will be easier and faster to just use before('created_at'), rather search who is the last column before the created_at column.

$table->string('description')->after('client_name')->nullable();

$table->string('description')->before('created_at')->nullable();

[shaedrich]

It's funny but I always just assumed, there was already one ^^ Checked the docs and the code and nope, you're right. Weird. Yeah, would absolutely make sense to have it.

[hafezdivandari]

That is because MySQL doesn't support this, it only supports AFTER and FIRST.

To add a column at a specific position within a table row, use FIRST or AFTER col_name. The default is to add the column last. Docs

[shaedrich]

It could still be implemented as syntactic sugar for what @elisonkaloshi is now doing manually. The timing couldn't be any better since Laravel just deprecated doctrine and implemented native methods for doctrine functionality.

[hafezdivandari]

You are right, one may send a PR using Schema::getColumnListing to implement this.