Laravel: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column

Question

I have a table with a column \'hotel\'. The project is created in Laravel 5.4, so I used Migrations.

    $table->string(\'hotel\', 50);

Thi

Answer 1

Change column's datatype from string to text and do not give length.

$table->text('hotel')->change();

Answer 2

change the type of column fromstring to text.

Then run a migrate refresh using php artisan migrate:refesh

Answer 3

On your local development, try changing the column type to:

$table->longText('columnName')

from your migration file. That solved it for me. But if you have gone live, then create a new migration just as Alexey has suggested and then use longText() column type.

Answer 4

I was storing pictures as base64 on a text colum so I got a SQL error:

SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column 'picture' at row 1 

I did my migration as

$table->text('picture')

then I changed de column picture as:

$table->mediumText('picture')

I realiced that text column allows to store only 64 KB

TEXT: 65,535 characters - 64 KB MEDIUMTEXT: 16,777,215 - 16 MB LONGTEXT: 4,294,967,295 characters - 4 GB

For more info visit: understanding-strorage-sizes-for-mysql-text-data-types

Answer 5

You need to create a new migration, register it with composer du command and run php artisan migrate command to change type of the column:

Schema::table('the_table_name', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->string('hotel', 255)->change();
});

Answer 6

Change column's datatype from string to text and do not give length.