Migration: Cannot add foreign key constraint

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I’m trying to create foreign keys in Laravel however when I migrate my table using artisan i am thrown the following error:

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1215 Cannot add foreign key constraint (SQL
: alter table `priorities` add constraint priorities_user_id_foreign foreign 
key (`user_id`) references `users` (`id`))

My migration code is as so:

priorities migration file

public function up()
{
    //
    Schema::create('priorities', function($table) {
        $table->increments('id', true);
        $table->integer('user_id');
        $table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
        $table->string('priority_name');
        $table->smallInteger('rank');
        $table->text('class');
        $table->timestamps('timecreated');
    });
}

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    //
    Schema::drop('priorities');
}

users migration file 

public function up()
{
    //
    Schema::table('users', function($table)
    {
    $table->create();
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('email');
    $table->string('first_name');
    $table->string('password');
    $table->string('email_code');
    $table->string('time_created');
    $table->string('ip');
    $table->string('confirmed');
    $table->string('user_role');
    $table->string('salt');
    $table->string('last_login');

    $table->timestamps();
    });
}

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    //
        Schemea::drop('users');
}

Any ideas as to what I’ve done wrong, I want to get this right now, as I’ve got a lot of tables I need to create e.g. Users, Clients, Projects, Tasks, Statuses, Priorities, Types, Teams. Ideally I want to create tables which hold this data with the foreign keys, i..e clients_project and project_tasks etc.

Hope someone can help me to get started.

40 Answers
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Add it in two steps, and it’s good to make it unsigned too:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('priorities', function($table) {
        $table->increments('id', true);
        $table->integer('user_id')->unsigned();
        $table->string('priority_name');
        $table->smallInteger('rank');
        $table->text('class');
        $table->timestamps('timecreated');
    });

   Schema::table('priorities', function($table) {
       $table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
   });

}

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