Unable to generate slug with spatie laravel-sluggable

I'm not able to generate slug when seeding database. I'm creating an e-commerce website course, learning Laravel as a beginner.

But no error about slug is provided. What should I do? Slug is not inserted into database when slug column is not nullable. When I made slug collumn nullable, it remains empty. Laravel-sluggable installed.

This is the error I get:

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'slug' doesn't have a default value (Connection: mysql, SQL: insert into products (title, image, description, price, created_at, updated_at, created_by, updated_by) values (Accusantium enim sapiente reprehenderit.

Product.php:

<?php namespace App\Models; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes; use Spatie\Sluggable\HasSlug; use Spatie\Sluggable\SlugOptions; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log; class Product extends Model { use HasFactory; use HasSlug; use SoftDeletes; public function getSlugOptions(): SlugOptions { Log::info('Generating slug for product: ' . ($this->title)); return SlugOptions::create() ->generateSlugsFrom('title') ->saveSlugsTo('slug'); } }

ProductFactory.php:

<?php namespace Database\Factories; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log; /** * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory\<\App\Models\Product\> */ class ProductFactory extends Factory { /** * Define the model's default state. * * @return array<string, mixed> */ public function definition(): array { Log::info('Generating fake product data'); return [ 'title' => fake()->text(20), 'image' => fake()->imageUrl(), 'description' => fake()->realText(2000), 'price' => fake()->randomFloat(2, 2, 5), 'created_at' => now(), 'updated_at' => now(), 'created_by' => 1, 'updated_by' => 1, ]; } }

ProductSeeder.php:

<?php namespace Database\Seeders; use App\Models\Product; use Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\WithoutModelEvents; use Illuminate\Database\Seeder; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log; class ProductSeeder extends Seeder { /** * Run the database seeds. */ public function run(): void { Log::info('Seeding products table with fake data'); Product::factory(50)->create(); } }

laravel.log (nothing logged from Product.php)

[2025-11-19 14:16:48] local.INFO: Seeding products table with fake data [2025-11-19 14:16:48] local.INFO: Generating fake product data

...and 49 other rows of Generating fake product data

2025_10_20_194742_create_products_table.php:

<?php use App\Models\User; use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration; use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema; return new class extends Migration { /** * Run the migrations. */ public function up(): void { Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->id(); $table->string('title', 2000); $table->string('slug', 2000)->nullable(); // I tried not nullable too. $table->string('image', 2000)->nullable(); $table->string('image_mime')->nullable(); $table->integer('image_size')->nullable(); $table->longText('description')->nullable(); $table->decimal('price', 10, 2); $table->foreignIdFor(User::class, 'created_by')->nullable(); $table->foreignIdFor(User::class, 'updated_by')->nullable(); $table->softDeletes(); $table->foreignIdFor(User::class, 'deleted_by')->nullable(); $table->timestamps(); }); } /** * Reverse the migrations. */ public function down(): void { Schema::dropIfExists('products'); } };