Laravel migrations change a column type from varchar to longText

Question

I need to change with a migration column type of $table->string('text'); to a text type, I have tried to do that in a few ways, but none of them worked. Is it possible to do it in one migration? I could I guess drop the column and then create it again with a new type, but I wonder if it is possible to do it in one migration?

Answer 1

You can create a new migration and change just one column type:

public function up() {     Schema::table('sometable', function (Blueprint $table) {         $table->text('text')->change();     }); } 

You need to install doctrine/dbal to make this work

composer require doctrine/dbal 

Works with Laravel 5.0+. It does not work with Laravel 4.2.