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.

Code

Answer 1

One way to get around foreign key errors is to disable checking: "SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS". This is a palliative solution, but the correct thing is really to adjust the tables and their relationships.

   DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;');

   Schema::table('example', function (Blueprint $table) {

        $table->integer('fk_example')->unsigned()->index();
        $table->foreign('fk_example')->references('id')->on('examples');
    });

  DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;');