The json type field in laravel migration creates a longtext field in the database, why?

Question

Laravel

Hello!
I create a migration, specify , a field with type longtext is created in the database . How to create json type field in migration? $table->json('options')->nullable();

Answer 1

MariaDB does not fully support the JSON type like new versions of MySQL do, but rather emulates it. However, she does it very well, but the field type will be longtext , and JSON will be just an alias to it. It's all in the official documentation.

Answer 2

Because your DBMS does not support the json type (rather an old version of mysql)