Laravel migrations change a column type from varchar to longText

Question

I need to change with migration column type of $table->string(\'text\'); to a text type, I have tried to do that in few ways, but none of them worked. Is it poss

Answer 1

Following worked for me.

Definitely you need to install doctrine/dbal to make this work, using following command in terminal.

composer require doctrine/dbal

Then create migration as mentioned here- https://laravel.com/docs/master/migrations#generating-migrations

open your migration file and write down below.

Schema::table('yourTable', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('column_name','4294967295')->change();
});

As, longText have maximum of 4,294,967,295 character limit, Laravel will automatically change column_name to longText data type.