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

all other answers are Correct But Before you run

php artisan migrate

make sure you run this code first

composer require doctrine/dbal

to avoid this error

RuntimeException : Changing columns for table "items" requires Doctrine DBAL; install "doctrine/dbal".