How to Add a New Column to an Existing Table in a Laravel Migration

2 years ago admin Laravel

In this lesson, we are going to see how to add a new column to an existing table in a Laravel migration, let's assume that we are working on an e-commerce website and we must store the user's phone in the database but we forgot to add the column in the user's migration.


Create new migration

First, we will create a new migration and we will specify that the table is users.

                                                    
                                                                                                                
php artisan make:migration add_phone_column_to_users_table --table=users

Add the column in the migration

Next, we will add the phone column to the newly created migration.

                                                        
                                                                                                                        
<?php

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

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            //
            $table->string('phone');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            //
            $table->dropColumn('phone');
        });
    }
};


Run the migration

Finally, we run the newly created migration.

                                                        
                                                                                                                        
php artisan migrate


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