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Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed (Laravel) reasons explained

If you ever faced this, which is obvious. Then you should remember there can be number of reasons for this to happen.

To understand this:

Suppose i have  two tables. roles and users.

In you have a user table and there you have a foreign key called role_id which is indicating roles table.
Reason Number 1: So when you run migration, laravel expects to have role table before user table. cause role_id is coming from role table. you can place your migration file of role by renaming the date.

Reason Number 2: You can declare foreign key in many ways. interger, bigInteger, unsignedBigInteger. Don't forget to give the reference table name on the example: ->references('id')->on('roles')

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