Auto Schema Detection

When you run make:crud with a model, the generated UserForm and UserTable are pre-populated with fields and columns from the database schema. The detected columns are printed before generation starts.

Without a model - or when the class does not exist, or the schema cannot be read - an empty Form and a Table with a single id column are generated instead, and the command warns about it.

Column type mapping

Rules are applied top to bottom; the first match wins:

Types not in this list (for example json, uuid or binary) get no form field at all - the column is skipped and you add the field by hand. They are still added as a non-sortable table column.

Nullable columns are generated as-is; non-nullable columns get ->required(). Labels are the headline form of the column name (published_at becomes Published At).

Relation selects

A column ending in _id on an integer type becomes a Select instead of a Number. The related model is resolved through the namespaces.models config (user_id → App\Models\User) and, when that class exists, the options are filled from it:

Select::make('user_id')
    ->label('User')
    ->options(\App\Models\User::query()->pluck('name', 'id')->toArray())
    ->required(),

The label column is the first of name, title, label, email, username, slug present on the related table, falling back to id. When the related model class does not exist, an empty options array with a // TODO comment is generated. Nullable foreign keys get ->nullable() instead of ->required().

Global search

If the table has any of name, title, email, username, slug, the generated Table enables global search on exactly those columns:

$table
    ->withGlobalSearch(columns: ['name', 'email'])
    ->column('id', 'ID', sortable: true)
    // …
    ->paginate(25);

Excluded columns

Excluded from generated forms:

id, password, remember_token, email_verified_at, created_at, updated_at, deleted_at

Excluded from generated tables - by exact column name, not by a name match, so a column such as password_hint is still added as a table column:

password, remember_token