Greetings, fellow developers! Have you ever been knee-deep in your Laravel project, working with database relationships, and needed to bid farewell to a foreign key? In this step-by-step walkthrough, we'll explore the process of dropping a foreign key from your database table.

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let's unravel the mysteries of dropping foreign keys in Laravel migrations. Ready? Let's dive in! 🚀

We'll create migration using the following command.

php artisan make:migration create_posts_table

Migration:

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
class CreatePostsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->text('description');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
  
        Schema::create('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->unsignedBigInteger('user_id');
            $table->unsignedBigInteger('post_id');
            $table->text('comment');
            $table->timestamps();
   
            $table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
            $table->foreign('post_id')->references('id')->on('posts');
        });
    }
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('comments');
        Schema::dropIfExists('posts');
    }
}

Run Migration:

php artisan migrate

 

Start by creating a migration using the Artisan command:

php artisan make:migration drop_posts_table

Navigate to the newly created migration file in the database/migrations directory and open it. Add the code for dropping the foreign key within the up method.

<?php
  
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
  
class CreatePostsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->dropForeign(['user_id', 'post_id']);
        });
    }
    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        
    }
}

Run the Migration:

Execute the migration to apply the changes to your database:

php artisan migrate

And there you have it! You've successfully learned how to drop a foreign key in Laravel 10 migrations

Happy coding! 🚀.

 

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