Now you can add the column in the database table only if its not present & can drop it if, its present. For that following methods are introduced:
- whenTableDoesntHaveColumn
- whenTableHasColumn
Available from Laravel 9.6.0
return new class extends Migration { public function up() { Schema::whenTableDoesntHaveColumn('users', 'name', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->string('name', 30); }); } public function down() { Schema::whenTableHasColumn('users', 'name', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->dropColumn('name'); }); }}
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