Schema Builder length of an integer

Question

I've been searching around and the question was asked a few times, but no-one seem to be able to give a definite answer to it. How do you specify the integer length for the table column using Schema?

I've seen someone suggesting:

$table->integer('post')->length(11);

But that doesn't work - at least with Laravel 4.2 - it still produces the column as int(10).

Is there a built in method to specify the integer length?

Answer 1

Thought I'd create an easy-to-copy-and-paste for general situations table.
Signed if you do require negative values and unsigned if you do not.

| Type                | Eloquent (Schema Builder)                 | Min     | Max    |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ |
| TINYINT (Signed)    | $table->signedTinyInteger('foo')          | -128    | 127    |
| TINYINT (Unsigned)  | $table->unsignedTinyInteger('foo')        | 0       | 255    |
| SMALLINT (Signed)   | $table->signedSmallInteger('foo')         | -32768  | 32767  |
| SMALLINT (Unsigned) | $table->unsignedSmallInteger('foo')       | 0       | 65535  |

For larger Integer types, see: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/integer-types.html

Answer 2

$table->bigInteger('variable');
$table->integer('variable');
$table->mediumInteger('variable'); 
$table->smallInteger('variable');
$table->tinyInteger('variable');
$table->unsignedBigInteger('variable');
$table->unsignedMediumInteger('variable'); 
$table->unsignedSmallInteger('variable');  
$table->unsignedTinyInteger('variable');  

https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/migrations

Answer 3

If you're using MySQL, you can't specify the length of an integer column. You can only choose between one of the available integer types, described at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/integer-types.html.

Hence, you cannot set the integer length in Laravel either. You can only choose one of the available types described at http://laravel.com/docs/schema#adding-columns.

Answer 4

I'm guessing that you want to specify a length of 10 to match an increment id (when declaring foreign keys). If so then you have to use:

$table->unsignedInteger('some_id_reference');

Answer 5

Now, in Laravel 5:

$table->addColumn('integer', 'post', ['length' => '10']); // Creates INT(10)
$table->addColumn('integer', 'post', ['length' => '10'])->unsigned(); // Creates Unsigned INT(10)
$table->unsignedInteger('post'); // Creates Unsigned INT(10)

$table->integer('post'); // Creates INT(11)
$table->integer('post')->unsigned(); // Creates Unsigned INT(11)