How To Add a Default Value To Column in Laravel Migration

Here I will be sharing, how we can add default value to column in laravel migration. As well as I will be adding an example to create migration in laravel. I will be creating a table of posts, table posts with columns title, content, and timestamps.

For this post, I am assuming that you already have installed Laravel and configured your database.

In the first step, we will be creating a migration

Create Migration

    	php artisan make:migration create_posts_table
    

Done! just created migration. and next, we will be adding columns to the migration file and creating an actual table in our database.

Adding columns and Add Default value to column migration

Go to the database/migrations directory, and open the recently created migration file, with your favorite code editor, and add the following code

    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            //here is the default value
            $table->string('title', 55)->default('Untitled aritcle');
            $table->text('content');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }
    

In above code, you can see, i have added default() function chained with $table->string() function. That function is responsible for adding default value to the column. Here I added the default value “Untitled article”. This value will be added if I don’t send a value for the title column from the posting form.

Hope this helped you!