---
title: "Installation — Contacts for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Install via Composer, publish the contacts migrations and the two companion migrations, then optionally publish config and translations."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/contacts-for-laravel/installation
language: en
---

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# Installation

Require the package. The service provider is auto-discovered and the Contacts facade alias is registered for you:

```bash
composer require roundly-consulting/contacts-for-laravel

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="contacts-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

The migrations are publish-only — the package never runs them for you. contacts-migrations publishes two files, in order: create\_contacts\_table and update\_contacts\_table\_with\_one\_primary\_per\_kind, the one-primary index (see Database schema). An install that already published create\_contacts\_table runs the same publish command again: the published copy is recognised, only the new file is added, and php artisan migrate runs it.

Each migration lands as a timestamped file you own. Re-publishing an unedited copy (with --force) overwrites it in place instead of adding a second one; a copy you edited — or any other same-named migration — is never overwritten: the package’s migration is published beside it under a fresh timestamp, and you decide which one to keep.

## Companion migrations

Composer pulls in addresses-for-laravel and connections-for-laravel automatically. Every Contact carries a structured address book and relationship edges through them, and deleting a contact cleans both up — so publish and run their migrations as well:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="addresses-migrations"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="connections-migrations"
php artisan migrate
```

## Config and translations

Both are optional — every config key has a default, and the type labels and error messages ship in English and Slovak. Publish only to override, or to add another language under lang/vendor/contacts/<locale>:

```bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="contacts-config"
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="contacts-translations"
```

The publish tags are contacts-migrations, contacts-config and contacts-translations.

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