Laravel migrate database database using artisan with new columns - laravel

Question

I am using laravel and I am trying to do another migration but the table already exists so it is throwing the following error:
[PDOException]
SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already
exists: 1050 Table 'users' already exists
I've added this line into the migration file:
$table->softDeletes();
This is the full file:
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class ConfideSetupUsersTable extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*/
public function up()
{
// Creates the users table
Schema::create('users', function ($table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('firstname');
$table->string('lastname');
$table->string('username')->unique();
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password');
$table->string('confirmation_code');
$table->string('remember_token')->nullable();
$table->softDeletes();
$table->boolean('confirmed')->default(false);
$table->timestamps();
});
// Creates password reminders table
Schema::create('password_reminders', function ($table) {
$table->string('email');
$table->string('token');
$table->timestamp('created_at');
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('password_reminders');
Schema::drop('users');
}
}
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can rollback the migration and then run it again:
php artisan migrate:rollback
And then:
php artisan migrate
Attention in your case this will delete all data from the table since it will drop users and password reminder and then recreate it.
The alternative is to create a new migration:
php artisan migrate:make users_add_soft_deletes
Put this in there:
Schema::table('users', function ($table) {
$table->softDeletes();
});
And run php artisan migrate to apply the new migration