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How to debug which file is causing errors in laravel 5.1

After creating multiple migrations I started editing these and sometimes testing them out. All was working well untill I tried the use of foreign keys taken from this example.

For some reason this wasn't working for me, so I decided to remove everything with foreign. Now when I run a php artisan migrate I get the following error:

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException] syntax error, unexpected ';'

I know it's related to one of the migrations I edited, but how can I quickly find it without going through all the migrations I created.

My question isn't about where my problem is (so my exact code isn't necessary), but how to debug efficiently?

EDIT:

I just tried php artisan:rollback and that works.

EDIT #2:

I just 'fixed' my problem, but would like to know for future reference how to debug faster.

Solution

  • Run the artisan command with verbose output

    php artisan -vvv migrate

    This will reveal more information about the syntax error.

    Edit: from my comment,

    You can quickly scan for syntax issues with the following cli command (unix only)

    find -L database/migrations -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 php -l

    For users on windows using git bash:

    find database/migrations -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 php -l