MariaDB 10.1 issues

[Nick Woolley]

Looks like a nice project!

Testing environment: Windows XAMPP Apache 2.4 Php 7.3 MariaDB 10.1

I had to update \app\Providers\AppServiceProvider.php to get past a 'key was too long' error when running php artisan migrate --seed:

Added at the top:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

and:

    public function boot()
    {
        Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    }

Ref: laravel/framework#17508

Next error occurs at: Migrating: 2019_11_10_000001_create_media_table
An SQL syntax error near 'json not null, custom_properties json not null, responsive_images json not n'. Looks like MariaDB JSON Datatype is available from Version 10.2.7+. I replaced 'json' with 'text', deleted all database tables and re-ran artisan.

Ref: laravel/framework#13622 (comment)

Seems to be working now even with old MariaDB 10.1, which I should upgrade!

[PovilasKorop]

@Ezyweb-uk thanks for explaining the issue. We do use JSON field which appeared in MariaDB, from what I remember, in 10.2.7 version. So yes, please upgrade.