“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

You have to give the integer an unsigned flag in Laravel 5.4, like this:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('post_id');
        $table->text('title');
        $table->text('text');
        $table->integer('employee_post_id_number')->unsigned();
        $table->foreign('employee_post_id_number')->references 
        ('employee_id_number')->on('employees');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}