Laravel Migration Enum Default Value Example

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This article will give you example of laravel migration enum default value. This article goes in detailed on enum default value laravel. it's simple example of how to set default value of enum data type in migration laravel. we will help you to give example of laravel migration enum default .

Sometime we take column like status and you have specified values for it like pending, active, completed etc. at that time you can choose enum data type in mysql. but if you want to add enum data type in laravel migration then how you can add enum data type column in laravel.

However, i will show you examples of how to add enum column in laravel migration, how to set default value of enum column using laravel migration and how to update value on enum column in laravel migration. you can also use it in laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, laravel 9, laravel 10 and laravel 11 version.

let's see bellow examples:

Add Enum Data Type Column:

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
class CreateProductsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->enum('status', ['Pending', 'Wait', 'Active']);
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
  
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('products');
    }
}

Add Enum Column with Default Value:

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
class CreateProductsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->enum('status', ['Pending', 'Wait', 'Active'])->default('Pending');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
  
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('products');
    }
}

Update Enum Column Values:

we will add new option call "Completed", you can see how i added.

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
class UpdateStatusColumn extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        \DB::statement("ALTER TABLE `products` CHANGE `status` `status` ENUM('Pending','Wait','Active', 'Completed') CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL DEFAULT 'Pending';");
    }
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
          
    }
}

you can see bellow screen shot:

i hope it can help you....