没有Eloquent和数据库迁移的Laravel？

Question

I'm a PHP programmer for 12 years now, and pretty much re-invented the wheel many times, building my own framework for our closed-source web-app, which is offered as a hosted solution, using the same shared database for all customers.

Now I'm trying out Laravel 5 and noticed that almost every example uses Eloquent and database migrations. To me it seems these kind of things are targeted towards simple databases and people who don't like SQL or database-design (but I might be wrong).

Our MySQL database contains 100+ tables, a lot of stored procedures and many triggers which I just can't imagine doing in an ORM. We use Navicat for database-design and testing SQL-queries. For upgrading the database to a newer version of the app, we already wrote some nice scripts and even visual tools.

So basically my question is if Laravel is really intended to be used with Eloquent and migrations or that I'm really missing out a lot of functionality without them.

What do you recommend?

Answer 1

Its upto you,

Laravel migration is aimed for keeping database version (while using version controller) also the eloquent is aimed for simple relation mapping between tables for complex situations like multiple Join and all its not recommended due to performance issue then you can choose Query Builder it gives much better performance , You need to write plain query in Laravel use \DB::statement();

The Laravel is a perfect match for Angular Js, more Laravel is just a wrapper of few nice PHP components that is capable for providing rapid results.

hope it helps..