“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

Here's what I do in Laravel 5:

// CREATING TABLE
Schema::create('your_table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->engine = 'InnoDB';
    $table->increments('id'); // index field example sample
    $table->string('field2'); // some varchar/string field sample
    $table->integer('field3'); // some integer field sample
    $table->integer('field_some_table_id')->unsigned; //for field that contains foreign key constraint
});

// FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINT
Schema::table('stock', function ($table) {
    $table->foreign('field_some_table_id')->references('id')->on('some_table')->onDelete('cascade')->onUpdate('cascade');
});

That's all for the conclusion, and it works for me.