Laravel 5.5 Error Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'users' already exists

Question

Specifications:

• Laravel Version: 5.5.3
• PHP Version: 7.1
• Database Driver & Version: MariaDB 10.1.26

Answer 1

Agree with Nitesh's answer but I think that's not the best practice to drop the table everytime for no reason. We could also use simple "if" check with condition Schema::hasTable('users') according to the docs. So we can use it as:

increments('id');
                $table->string('name');
                $table->string('email')->unique();
                $table->string('password');
                $table->rememberToken();
                $table->timestamps();
            });
        }
     }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('users');
    }
}

This solution will also be feasible in the scenario when you will already have a table and need some modification then you will be able to do anything in the else statement as well.