php - mariaDB JSON support in Laravel

Question

I'm trying to create a json database in XAMP, while using the phpmyAdmin it showed me that I'm using mariaDB but in my xamp-control panel v3.2.2 it shows running mySQL on port 3306. I'm using Laravel 5.4 framework to create the database, following is my migration which I'm trying to execute:

Schema::connection('newPortal')->create('pages', function (Blueprint $table){
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('title');
    $table->string('slug')->unique()->index();
    $table->json('styles')->nullable();
    $table->json('content')->nullable();
    $table->json('scripts')->nullable();
    $table->softDeletes();
    $table->timestamps();
});

Now while executing this I'm getting following error:

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near 'json null, content json null, scripts json null, deleted_at timestamp null' at line 1 (SQL: create table pages (id int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, title varchar(191) not null, slug varchar(191) not null, styles json null, content json null, scripts json null, deleted_at timestamp null, created_at timestamp null, updated_at timestamp null) default character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci)

Even if I keep not null it throws the same error. I want to have json formatted data, I checked the supported version and as per the documentation json format support started from the version MariaDB 10.0.16. and I'm using 10.1.21-MariaDB

Help me out in this.

Answer 1

MariaDB has alias for JSON datatype since version 10.2.7

Add MariaDB JSON to Laravel with this package