Laravel migration (errno: 150 “Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed”)

Question

I have an orders table and a have a sell_shipping_labels which references orders.id as a foreign. However when I run the Laravel migration I get th

Answer 1

the foreign key must be an "unsignedBigInteger" and it will be fixed, something like this:

$table->unsignedBigInteger('user_id');

$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');