Laravel 3 Schema Table Column Collation

Question

I\'m learning laravel, and I\'m stuck on a simple process. I want the tables to be generated as UTF-8 but varchar and text fields are like latin-1.

Schema section in gui

Answer 1

Here is my solution

1.add public $charset; in the laravel/database/schema/table.php under public $engine; 2.replace the function create in laravel/database/schema/grammars/mysql.php like this

public function create(Table $table, Fluent $command)
{
    $columns = implode(', ', $this->columns($table));

    // First we will generate the base table creation statement. Other than auto
    // incrementing keys, no indexes will be created during the first creation
    // of the table as they're added in separate commands.
    $sql = 'CREATE TABLE '.$this->wrap($table).' ('.$columns.')';

    if ( ! is_null($table->engine))
    {
        $sql .= ' ENGINE = '.$table->engine;
    }
    if ( ! is_null($table->charset))
    {
        $sql.="DEFAULT CHARSET=".$table->charset;
    }
    return $sql;
}

3.now you can set any charset in your migration php such as $table->charset='utf8';