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How to Create Enum Field in Laravel Migration

How to Create Enum Field in Laravel Migration ?

Aman Jain, June 30, 2022August 17, 2022

In laravel while creating table schema for some columns we want to add column type enum field so in this article we will create Enum Field in Laravel Migration. We can easily add enum column as we add other varchar integer etc columns in laravel. Enum is useful when we want to store specific predefined string in the column only and it restrict to store any type of data.

We will cover in this example with any version of laravel 5, laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8 and laravel 9.

In laravel migration we can easily create enum field using enum method of laravel Schema class and it accepts two parameters first as name of column and second enum values in array.

Here is the syntax

$table->enum('status',['1','0']);

//we can also set default value

$table->enum('status',['1','0'])-> default('0');

We will use the php artisan command to generate the Create Enum Field in Laravel migration and php artisan migrate command to modify the table.

Let’s understand the Create Enum Field 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 movies_table

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

Output: 
Created Migration: 2022_06_30_174050_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 enum column to the table so adding a status column as enum .

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 CreateMoviesTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('movies', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->int('user_id');
            $table->string('title');
            $table->string('body')->nullable();
            $table->enum('status',['NEW','OLD']);
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
         Schema::dropIfExists('movies');
    }
}

as you can see we have created enum field using $table->enum('status',['NEW','OLD']) syntax.

Method 2 : Enum field with Default Value

In this method we will use enum values with default value

 Schema::create('movies', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->int('user_id');
            $table->string('title');
            $table->string('body')->nullable();
            $table->enum('status',['NEW','OLD'])->default("OLD");
            $table->timestamps();
        });

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_movies_table
Migrated:  2022_02_15_174050_movies_table (20.08ms)

Also Read : How to Update Enum Field Value using Laravel Migration ?

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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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