Laravel migration table field's type change

Question

Following is my file 2015_09_14_051851_create_orders_table.php. And I want to change $table->integer(\'category_id\'); as a string with new migratio

Answer 1

update: 31 Oct 2018, Still usable on laravel 5.7 https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/migrations#modifying-columns

To make some change to existing db, you can modify column type by using change() in migration.

This is what you could do

Schema::table('orders', function ($table) {
    $table->string('category_id')->change();
});

please note you need to add doctrine/dbal dependency to composer.json for more information you can find it here http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/migrations#modifying-columns