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

The standard solution didn't work for me, when changing the type from TEXT to LONGTEXT.

I had to it like this:

public function up()
{
    DB::statement('ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY mycolumn  LONGTEXT;');
}

public function down()
{
    DB::statement('ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY mycolumn TEXT;');
}

This could be a Doctrine issue. More information here.

Another way to do it is to use the string() method, and set the value to the text type max length:

    Schema::table('mytable', function ($table) {
        // Will set the type to LONGTEXT.
        $table->string('mycolumn', 4294967295)->change();
    });