Laravel 8: Migrations how can i add string that is more than 1k characters?

Question

Hello guys I have this migration? and I want the string of the table body up to 1000 characters. I think the default of characters in a string is 255. I hope you can help me because I need to input more than 700 strings. thanks guys

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->id();
        $table->string('title');
        $table->string('body');
        $table->string('editedby');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

Answer 1

You can use longText

$table->longText('body');

The longText method creates a LONGTEXT equivalent column:

Ref:https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/migrations#column-method-longText