multiple databases problem

[CharrafiMed]

Why does --path solve my migration issue but --database does not?

I'm working on a Laravel project with multiple databases and custom migration directories. I've encountered an issue where running migrations with the --database option doesn't behave as expected.

Context:

1. I have separate migrations for different databases in custom directories.

2. When I run php artisan migrate --database=analytics_db, it tries to run all migrations, including those that belong to other databases, leading to errors like:

   SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'users' already exists (Connection: mysql, SQL: create table `users` (`id` bigint unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, `name` varchar(255) not null, `email` varchar(255) not null, `email_verified_at` timestamp null, `password` varchar(255) not null, `remember_token` varchar(100) null, `created_at` timestamp null, `updated_at` timestamp null) default character set utf8mb4 collate 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci')
   

What I Tried:

I tried using php artisan migrate --database=analytics_db, but it attempts to run migrations for all databases, not just analytics_db.

Solution I Found after reading underlined code (doesn't mention in the docs ):

Running the migrations with the --path option works correctly and only runs the migrations for the specified path:

php artisan migrate --path=modules/Analytics/Database/Migrations

notice: of all the migrations i specified the database connection using Schema::connection('database_name')->

Why does specifying the --path option solve the problem, but using the --database option does not? Is there something I'm missing about how the --database option is supposed to work?