Define property zerofill and size on field schema migration with laravel

Question

How can I define property zerofill and size (2) on field schema migration with Laravel?

Schema::create(\'books\', function (Blueprint $table) {
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Answer 1

Zerofill is not a SQL standard. The shema builder of laravel provides only these ANSI SQL standards.

But you can use a workaround to define it with a raw sql statement:

create_books.php

Schema::create('books', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->integer('reference');
});
DB::statement('ALTER TABLE books CHANGE reference reference INT(2) UNSIGNED ZEROFILL NOT NULL');

Answer 2

As mentioned, in order to keep your migrations portable, you'll want to use an accessor to provide that. It'll look something like this:

Book.php model

public function getReferenceAttribute($value)
{
    if($value){
        return str_pad($value, 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
    }else{
        return null;
    }
}