laravel 5.1: add column to table

php artisan migratemake add_mycolumn_to_mytable

A new migration file will be created.

Add the code that updates the schema (http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/migrations#modifying-columns).

Schema::table('mytable', function($table)
{
    $table->integer('mycolumn');
}

The following command will update db schema.

php artisan migrate