Laravel drop foreign Key in Migration

Question

I want to create a Migration which shall drop a table. I created the Migration like this:

Schema::table('devices', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->unsignedInteger('client_id')->nullable();
    $table->foreign('client_id')->references('id')->on('clients')->onDelete('cascade');
});

And now I try to drop it like this:

    Schema::table('devices', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->dropForeign('devices_client_id_foreign');
        $table->drop('devices');
    });

But I get following error:

In Connection.php line 664:

  SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1091 Can't DROP 'devices_client_id_foreign'; check that column/key exists (SQL:

alter table devices drop foreign key devices_client_id_foreign)

In PDOStatement.php line 144:

  SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1091 Can't DROP 'devices_client_id_foreign'; check that column/key exists


In PDOStatement.php line 142:

  SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1091 Can't DROP 'devices_client_id_foreign'; check that column/key exists

Solution 1

You just need to disable foreign key checks before you drop the table then enable them again after like this:

DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;');
Schema::dropIfExists('devices');
DB::statement('SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=1;');

Solution 2

You can use this answer. https://stackoverflow.com/a/30177480/8513937

Pass to dropForeign the column name as array. Internally, Laravel drops the associated foreign key.

$table->dropForeign(['client_id']);

Solution 3

Try this ways...

  public function down()
 {
    Schema::dropIfExists('devices');
 }

//Or this
  public function down(){
    Schema::table('devices', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->dropForeign(['client_id']);
        $table->dropColumn('client_id');
        $table->drop('devices');
    });
  }

Solution 4

Just drop the whole table (documentation):

Schema::drop('devices');

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Comments

[Jon not doe xx]

Hi there is a foreign key Client_id so I cant drop it that easily

[Jon not doe xx]

There is a foreign key I can't drop it that easily

[Jon not doe xx]

Integrity constraint violation: 1217 Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails (SQL: drop table devices)

[Jonas Staudenmeir]

Are there foreign keys in other tables that reference the devices table?

[Sizzling Code]

why drop the whole table in down method when we are not creating table in up method?

[shamaseen]

You can't drop the whole table while it has a foreign key.

[Daniel Hernández]

This works when you didn't give it a different FKs name that Laravel sets by default.