Is there any way to detect if a database table exists with Laravel

To create a new table there is only one check by Laravel Schema function hasTable.

if (!Schema::hasTable('table_name')) {
    // Code to create table
}

But if you want to drop any table before checking its existence then Schema have a function called dropIfExists.

Schema::dropIfExists('table_name');

It will drop the table if table will exist.

If you are using Laravel 4 or 5 then there is the hasTable() method, you can find it in the L4 source code or the L5 docs:

Schema::hasTable('mytable');

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