“General error: 1005 Can't create table” Using Laravel Schema Build and Foreign Keys

Question

Essentially, I am having the same issue as this guy, minus the table prefix. Because I have no table prefix, his fix does not work. http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?i

Answer 1

Easiest way is to disable foreign key checks:

DB::statement('set foreign_key_checks=0');

Schema::table( ... );

DB::statement('set foreign_key_checks=1');