How to add a new column to existing table of laravel in a migration

+2 votes

Hii team,

I'm unable to add column to an existing table. I used the below code.

<?php

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function ($table) {
        $table->integer("paid");
    });
}

In terminal, I execute php artisan migrate:install and migrate.

How do I add new columns? Help out please!!

thank you!

Mar 30, 2020 in Laravel by kartik
• 37,520 points
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2 answers to this question.

0 votes

Hii @kartik,

To create a migration, you may use the migrate:make command on the Artisan CLI. Use a specific name to avoid clashing with existing models

For Laravel 3:

php artisan migrate:make add_paid_to_users

For Laravel 5+:

php artisan make:migration add_paid_to_users_table --table=users

You then need to use the Schema::table() method (as you're accessing an existing table, not creating a new one). And you can add a column like this:

public function up()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->integer('paid');
    });
}

and don't forget to add the rollback option:

public function down()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->dropColumn('paid');
    });
}

:Then you can run your migrations

php artisan migrate

Thank You!

answered Mar 30, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,840 points
Thank you...it worked...i just used your php artisan migrate
Thank you....for the solution
0 votes

You need do little modification in your artisan command

artisan make:migration add_columns_to_users_table

You then need to use the Schema::table() method (as you're accessing an existing table, not creating a new one). And you can add a column like this

  public function up()
  {
     Schema::table('users', function($table) {
          $table->type('column');
      });
   }

add the rollback option:

 public function down()
{
    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->dropColumn('column');
    });
 }

Then you can run your migrations:

 php artisan migrate
answered Dec 10, 2020 by anonymous
• 82,840 points

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