While working on a recent Statamic 3 project, I had the requirement to switch to the database eloquent driver to store Statamic users. The Storing Users in a Database knowledge base article was great to get the configuration changes done, and the base database tables created. However, after doing some testing I noticed that the project was triggering the following errors:

• SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'database.password_activations' doesn't exist at
• SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'database.password_resets' doesn't exist at

If you are also receiving these errors after migrating your Statamic 3 users to the database, you can follow the remaining steps to get things up and running smoothly again.

Creating the Password Activations Table

From the root of your Statamic 3 project, run the following Artisan command:

php artisan make:migration create_password_activations_table

Once this has completed, locate a new file that ends with _create_password_activations_table.php within your projects database/migrations/ folder and set the contents to:

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreatePasswordActivationsTable extends Migration
{

    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('password_activations', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('email')->index();
            $table->string('token')->index();
            $table->timestamp('created_at');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('password_activations');
    }

}

Creating the Password Resets Table

We will perform steps similar to the password_activations table to create our password_resets table. From the root of your Statamic 3 project, run the following Artisan command:

php artisan make:migration create_password_resets_table

Once this has completed, locate a new file that ends with _create_password_resets_table.php within your projects database/migrations/ folder and set the contents to:

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreatePasswordResetsTable extends Migration
{

    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('password_resets', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('email')->index();
            $table->string('token')->index();
            $table->timestamp('created_at');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::drop('password_resets');
    }
}

Running the Migrations

Once the previous two steps have been completed, run the following Artisan command to generate your new database tables:

php artisan migrate

Conclusion

In this article, we looked at a solution to a common problem when using databases to store Statamic 3 users. The solution was to simply create the two required tables that Statamic is looking for when sending new account activation emails, or password reset emails.

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