Artisan creating tables in database

Question

In Laravel 5, I'm attempting to build MySQL tables. Users.php is a file I made in the project/database/migrations directory.

[...]
public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function(Blueprint $table)
    {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('username');
        $table->string('fullname');
        $table->int('number');
        $table->string('email')->unique();
        $table->string('password', 60);
        $table->rememberToken();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}
[...]

Next, I attempted to issue the following commands in the project folder:

$ php artisan migrate
$ php artisan migrate:install
$ php artisan migrate --pretend

None of them return any output and no tables are created. The database to be populated exists.