Laravel migration: using a native PHP enum

Question

In PHP 8.1, native support for enums were introduced. How can I use them in a Laravel Migration?

My first thought would be something like this, but it does not work.

// migration
public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('school_days', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->enum('day_of_week', \App\Enums\DayOfWeek::cases());
        });
    }

// DayOfWeek.php
enum DayOfWeek {
    case: Monday;
    case: Tuesday;
    case: Wednesday;
    case: Thursday;
    case: Friday;
    case: Saturday;
    case: Sunday;
}

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '22 at 20:08

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I'm not sure that $table->enum implemented enums yet but you can like this;

enum DayOfWeek {
    case Monday;
    case Tuesday;
    case Wednesday;
    case Thursday;
    case Friday;
    case Saturday;
    case Sunday;
}


$table->enum('day_of_week', array_map(fn($day) => $day->name, DayOfWeek::cases()));

answered May 06 '22 at 20:08

xuma

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Won't this break your codebase if when this is deployed you change the internal values of the enum? The migration won't run again every time.. – Niels Bosman Aug 17 '22 at 06:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 29 '22 at 21:02

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enum DayOfWeek {
    case Monday;
    case Tuesday;
    case Wednesday;
    case Thursday;
    case Friday;
    case Saturday;
    case Sunday;
}


$table->enum('day_of_week', array_column(DayOfWeek::cases(), 'name'));

answered Oct 29 '22 at 21:02

Diego Lourenço

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Laravel migration: using a native PHP enum

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