Create database on first Migration

Hello, everyone.

Is there a way to create the database by runing a migration in the application startup? In this case I want to create the main application's database, not a secondary one, that is, my first migration will be responsible to create the database.

I'm coming from .NET and I used to use Entity Framework Migration to handle all the database 'actions', like creating and updating it. In the first execution, if the database do not exists, EF Migrations creates it for me.

I tried to create a migration to do it, but to make it work I first need to configure the database connection on config/database.php, seting the database name. But I do not have a database initially! I want the migrations create it for me.

Thank you all. =)

You would need to use the low level MySQLi class to do this.

PHP Code:

<?php

$servername = "localhost";
$username   = "username";
$password   = "password";

// Create connection
$conn_id = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);

// Check connection
if ($conn_id->connect_error)
{
    exit("Connection failed: " . $conn_id->connect_error);
} 

// Create database
$sql = "CREATE DATABASE database_name";

if ($conn_id->query($sql) === TRUE)
{
    echo "Database created successfully";
}
else
{
    echo "Error creating database: " . $conn_id->error;
}

$conn_id->close();

?>

What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?

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Thank you, InsiteFX. I thought that could exist a "more beautiful" way to do it just using migrations, but I see that there's not.
So, I'll continue creating my database manually and letting the tables' creations for the migrations.
=)