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

Seems not implement actually for individual schema build in Laravel 3 master. (find nothing in source code)

I think you need to do this manually ( try with raw query )

Answer 2

I'm stuck on the same, I guess there is no way in Laravel to change/set collation of the charset. But you can change the default collation for charset in your my.ini/my.cnf of your MySQL Server!

[mysqld]
#...
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
#...

Answer 3

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';

Answer 4

Just solved it, (using mysql 5.5 (5.5.29)) with Linux Mint 13 Mate (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

I added these lines on /etc/mysqld/my.cnf

[client]
default-character-set = utf8

[mysqld]
init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_unicode_ci'
character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci

This way, SQL queries worked on shell as it should, but on laravel or phpmyadmin etc, they didn't work. So I did this:

I opened /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset and removed the ; from this line:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Then I restarted apache2 and mysql, now it works as it should.

Later Edit: That GitHub Core Hack works like a treat. I ended up doing it.

Answer 5

Support for MySQL character sets and collation has been added to Laravel 4 . Check this example.

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/897