Laravel 5.1 Unknown database type enum requested

karthick picture karthick · Oct 15, 2015 · Viewed 52.5k times · Source

While running php artisan migrate, I got the following error

[Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException]
Unknown database type enum requested, Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySqlPlatform may not support it.

How to resolve this issue.

Code:

public function up() {
    Schema::table('blogs', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->string('wordpress_id')->nullable();
        $table->string('google_blog_id')->nullable()->change();
    });
}

Answer

Xeleon picture Xeleon · Feb 8, 2017

It is a known issue as stated in Laravel 5.1 documentation.

Note: Renaming columns in a table with a enum column is not currently supported.

It happens when you have a enum column in your database table. Whether you are trying to rename another column, or change another column to nullable, this bug will appear. It's an issue with Doctrine\DBAL.

An easy fix for this is to just add this constructor method in your database migration file.

public function __construct()
{
    DB::getDoctrineSchemaManager()->getDatabasePlatform()->registerDoctrineTypeMapping('enum', 'string');
}

This will map all the ENUM columns to VARCHAR(), and the column will accept any string.

This worked for me on Laravel 5.1 and Laravel 5.3. I hope this bug can be fixed soon.

Credit to @Gmatkowski's answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/32860409/1193201