Laravel Migrations - Table Prefix Issue - php

Question

I'm building a dummy site to test Laravel 3.x.
I'm creating my site migrations right now. Everything was doing just fine until the following error showed up:
SQLSTATE[42s02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'databasenamehere.prefix_laravel_migrations' doesn't exist
The issue is that laravel all of a sudden started to prefix the 'laravel_migrations' table (when it is supposed to do it only with the other ones).
I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or if it is a known issue.
I'm trying to run the following migration (using the php artisan migrate application command):
public function up()
{
Schema::create('siteinfo', function ($table)
{
$table->engine = 'InnoDB';
$table->string('name');
$table->string('title')->nullable();
$table->string('corp_name')->nullable();
$table->string('corp_addr')->nullable();
$table->string('corp_phone')->nullable();
$table->string('corp_city')->nullable();
$table->string('corp_state')->nullable();
$table->string('corp_email')->nullable();
$table->string('main_url')->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
Any help would be great.
EDIT 1:
I noticed some minutes ago that my tables got no prefix at all, even with the "prefix" configuration set correctly on the config/database.php file.
Everything works fine if I remove the prefix. I know that I can set the prefix manually in every migration I run, but well...

Answer 1

In application->config->database.php set the prefix as follows
'mysql' => array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'database' => 'foodb',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'prefix' => 'ula_', <-- this is where you need to set the table prefix
),
After setting this, migrate:reset and migrate it again
I have done this way and its works perfect

Answer 2

On Laravel 5.4.*, I ended up creating the artisan command to add table prefix on certain tables (not globally) using below handle method.
public function handle()
{
$this->tablePrefix = 'tmp_';
// Set table prefix
DB::setTablePrefix($this->tablePrefix);
$data = [
'--path' => [
'database/prefixed-migrations' // Directory Path to migrations which require table prefix
],
'--database' => 'cli',
'--force' => true
];
$this->call('migrate', $data); // Next call the migration
Model::reguard();
}
Hope this helps if anyone looking to prefix on certain tables without setting it globally.