Laravel migration: “Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed” (errno 150)

Question

When migrating my DB, this error appears. Below is my code followed by the error that I am getting when trying to run the migration.

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Answer 1

if you are using ->onDelete('set null') in your foreign key definition make sure the foreign key field itself is nullable() ie

//Column definition
$table->integer('user_id')->unsigned()->index()->nullable(); //index() is optional

//...
//...

//Foreign key 
$table->foreign('user_id')
      ->references('id')
      ->on('users')
      ->onDelete('set null');