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How to Prevent Key Is Too Long Error in Laravel

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Sometimes you might come across an error saying 'specified key is too long" when defining a migration in Laravel and there are several ways to fix this issue.
[Illuminate\Database\QueryException] SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes
The cause of the error above is because of a number that's higher than 255 characters so by specifying the code below you will get the error message as mentioned above.
<?php $table->string('email', 300);

Method 1: Specify Smaller Value


The easiest fix for this issue is to just update the columns and specify the value of the particular field to 255 characters.
<?php $table->string('email', 255);

Method 2: Update config/database.php Configuration


The next fix is to update the "configuration database" which is located in the "config" folder.
config/database.php 
The value of the charset and collation should be updated to below.
<?php

'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',

Method 3: Update defaultStringLength value


The 3rd method is to update the defaultStringLength to have a value of 191 and this should fix the error.
<?php

Schema::defaultStringLength(191);

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    // your columns definition
});
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