Add Laravel Migrations With Foreign Keys
I have created a table called 'users'.There are tables called 'companies','designations','departments'.I want to add company_id,designation_id,department_id columns to users table as foreign keys.
I tried this but it didn't work
public function up()
{
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->integer('department_id');
$table->integer('company_id');
$table->integer('designation_id');
$table->foreign('department_id')->references('id')->on('departments')->onDelete('restrict')->onUpdate('restrict');
$table->foreign('company_id')->references('id')->on('companies')->onDelete('restrict')->onUpdate('restrict');
$table->foreign('designation_id')->references('id')->on('designations')->onDelete('restrict')->onUpdate('restrict');
});
}
public function down()
{
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->dropColumn(['department_id','company_id','designation_id']);
});
}
When I migrate the migration it shows this error.
Illuminate\Database\QueryException : SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1005 Can't create table
lanwadb
.users
(errno: 150 "Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed") (SQL: alter tableusers
add constraintusers_department_id_foreign
foreign key (department_id
) referencesdepartments
(id
) on delete restrict on update restrict)
Designation migration as follows,
public function up()
{
Schema::create('designations', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->timestampsTz();
});
}
Department migration as follows,
public function up()
{
Schema::create('departments', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->integer('company_id');
$table->timestampsTz();
});
}
```
Answer
To make relationship the foreign key field should be index
ed. Here you have three columns you want to use as foreign key 'company_id'
, 'department_id'
and 'designation_id'
. In Laravel migration you can use unsigned()
function to index
them.
Example:
$table->integer('department_id')->unsigned();
$table->integer('company_id')->unsigned();
$table->integer('designation_id')->unsigned();
There is another function called unsignedInteger()
by which you can make a column both Integer and Unsigned.
$table->unsignedInteger('department_id');
$table->unsignedInteger('company_id');
$table->unsignedInteger('designation_id');
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