Laravel Validation - Check if a column exists

You can check a whether a column exists or not by

if(Schema::hasColumn('users', 'email')) ; //check whether users table has email column
{
 //your logic
}

Thanks @tangoG right answer!

This is the right answer but what about a migration file that adds multiple columns? We could wrap every dropColumn in a seperate Schema anonymous function. There is also a hasColumns that checks that every column exists. What if you want to check for partial existence?

You could build an array of the names of the columns you want to drop, if they exist, then pass that through to dropColumn.

$columns = [];

if (Schema::hasColumn('users', 'email'));
{
    array_push($columns, 'email');
}

if (Schema::hasColumn('users', 'age'));
{
    array_push($columns, 'age');
}

if (count($columns)) {
    Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) use ($columns) {
        $table->dropColumn($columns);
    });
}

*Edit: I know the original post is two years old at this point, but I still found the accepted answer helpful, and since there was a question asked just a month ago, I figure it's still relevant.

@SCOTTZIRKEL - Why do you have semicolons at the end of your initial if statements ? That would seem to exclude the block.

@CROSSMAR - I didn't in my code, must have been some weird copy & pasting thing.