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How to add column in laravel migration

How to Add Column in Existing Table Laravel migration ?

Aman Jain, February 15, 2022June 30, 2022

Adding column to existing table are easy as creating a new table and adding columns to it. In laravel migration we can add new colum to existing table using the same method we used in create migrations . Major difference between creating new table and updating new table is Schema::create and Schema::table In this tutorial we will create a new migration file and then will add a new column status to the existing table .

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We will use the php artisan command to generate the add column in laravel migration and php artisan migrate command to modify the table.

I am assuming that you have already table movies in database and now we are adding a new column.

Let’s understand the add column in laravel migration in laravel step by step

Step 1 : Generate migration file

To generate the migration file we will use the laravel artisan command so open the terminal in project and run below command

php artisan make:migration add_status_movies_table

Above command will create a migration file in folder database/migrations

Output: 
Created Migration: 2022_02_15_174050_add_status_movies_table

Step 2 : Open generated migration file and update

In the last step we created a migration file using the artisan command and now we wanted to add some more columns to schema of movies table.

so let’s open the file and start editing

<?php

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

class AddStatusMoviesTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        //
    }
}

In the file there is a class named as AddStatusMoviesTable and it extends Migration class. AddStatusMoviesTable contains two methods one is up and other one is down.

Up is used to update the database scheme and down method is used to rollback the changes of this migration. As you can see we are creating table movies in up method and dropping the table in down method.

let’s add some more fields to our table before updating the database.

public function up()
{
        Schema::table('movies', function (Blueprint $table) {
             
            $table->integer("status");
            
        });
}

public function down()
{
        Schema::table('movies', function (Blueprint $table) {
             
            $table->dropColumn("status");
            
        });
}

Here we used Schema::table to update the table.

Step 3 : Run Migration

In this step we will execute our migration in database using below command

php artisan migrate

This will create table in database and the output

Output: 
Migrating: 2022_02_15_174050_add_status_movies_table
Migrated:  2022_02_15_174050_add_status_movies_table (20.08ms)

Screenshot Before:

Screenshot 2022 02 15 at 10.29.48 PM
Laravel before migration in database

Screenshot After:

Screenshot 2022 02 15 at 11.14.30 PM

Also Read : Laravel artisan command to generate controllers, Model, Components and Migrations

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Aman Jain
Aman Jain

With years of hands-on experience in the realm of web and mobile development, they have honed their skills in various technologies, including Laravel, PHP CodeIgniter, mobile app development, web app development, Flutter, React, JavaScript, Angular, Devops and so much more. Their proficiency extends to building robust REST APIs, AWS Code scaling, and optimization, ensuring that your applications run seamlessly on the cloud.

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