Error Base table or view not found 1146 Table learn category posts doesn t exist SQL insert into category posts category id posts id values 4

Question

I am a new of laravel I try to create relationship many to many between table,My problem when I am insert data in to database I got errors

QueryException in Connection.php line 713: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'learn.category_posts' doesn't exist (SQL: insert into category_posts (category_id, posts_id) values (4, ))

Here below is my migrate and code:

2020_09_25_131009_create_table_posts.php

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->text('title');
        $table->text('body');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

2020_09_25_131053_create_table_categories.php

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('categories', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

2020_09_25_131413_create_table_category_posts.php

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('category_post', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->integer('category_id')->unsigned();
        $table->integer('post_id')->unsigned();
        $table->foreign('category_id')->references('id')->on('categories')->onUpdate('cascade')->onDelete('cascade');
        $table->foreign('post_id')->references('id')->on('posts')->onUpdate('cascade')->onDelete('cascade');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

How to solve it?

Niroj · Answer 1 · Sep 25, 2020

Hello @kartik,

It seems Laravel is trying to use category_posts table (because of many-to-many relationship). But you don't have this table, because you've created category_post table. Change name of the table to category_posts.

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!