title: Laravel 5.1 Unknown database type enum requested
body: <p>While running <strong>php artisan migrate</strong>, I got the following error</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[Doctrine\DBAL\DBALException]<br>
      Unknown database type enum requested, Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySqlPlatform may not support it. </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>How to resolve this issue.</p>
  
  <p>Code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function up() {
      Schema::table('blogs', function (Blueprint $table) {
          $table-&gt;string('wordpress_id')-&gt;nullable();
          $table-&gt;string('google_blog_id')-&gt;nullable()-&gt;change();
      });
  }
  </code></pre>