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Laravel offers the following methods for defining migrations:

Command

Description

$table->bigIncrements('name');

It creates an auto-incrementing big integer 

column

$table->bigInteger('name');

It creates a BIGINT column

$table->binary('name');

It creates a BLOB column

$table->boolean('active');

It creates a BOOLEAN column

$table->char('name', 8);

It creates a CHAR column with the given length

$table->date('birthdate');

It creates a DATE column

$table->dateTime('created_at');

It creates a DATETIME column

$table->decimal('amount', 5, 

2);

It creates a DECIMAL column with the given 

precision and scale

$table->double('column', 10, 

5);

It creates a DOUBLE column, with 10 digits in 

total and 5 after the decimal point

$table->enum('gender', 

['Female', 'Male']);

It creates an ENUM column

$table->float('amount');

It creates a FLOAT column

$table->increments('id');

It creates an auto-incrementing integer column

$table->integer('rating');

It creates an INTEGER column

$table->json('options');

It creates a JSON column

$table->longText('description');

It creates a LONGTEXT column

$table->mediumInteger('name');

It creates a MEDIUMINT column

$table->mediumText('name');

It creates a MEDIUMTEXT column

$table->morphs('taggable');

It creates two columns: INTEGER taggable_

id

 and STRING taggable_type