Creating tables in Migration

Laravel

Posted on March 11, 2021 | by Joydeep M

Post Views: 12

In Laravel to create a new database table first of all we need to make a migration which we have explained in the previous blog. I recommend you to read that blog, you can refer the link given below:

https://www.scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/explanation-of-database-migrations-in-laravel-5-8/

Once we are done with creating a migration file, to create a new database
table we have to use the create method on the Schema facade. The create method accepts two arguments:-

The first is the name of the table, while the second is a closure which receives a Blueprint object that may be used to define the new table:

use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('name');
    $table->string('email');
    $table->timestamps();
});

In the table we can add number of $table as per our requirement. There are several data type which we can use while creating the $table. Few of them are given below:

bigIncrements()

The bigIncrements method creates an auto-incrementing UNSIGNED BIGINT (primary key) equivalent column:

$table->bigIncrements('id');

bigInteger()

The bigInteger method creates a BIGINT equivalent column:

$table->bigInteger('votes');

id()

The id method is an alias of the bigIncrements method. By default, the method will create an id column; however, you may pass a column name if you would like to assign a different name to the column:

$table->id();

rememberToken()

The rememberToken method creates a nullable, VARCHAR(100) equivalent column that is intended to store the current “remember me” authentication token: