Call to undefined method Illuminate\Database\Schema\MySqlBuilder::defaultStringLength()

Question

Firstly i was getting an error in

php artisan migrate

as

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key w

Answer 1

defaultStringLength is introduced in Laravel v5.4. Reference.

You can update the Laravel version

OR

You specify the length as $table->string('coumname', 255); You cannot specify more than 255. If you leave the length parameter it will assign 255 by default