I am trying to install Laravel. I have installed Xampp
, but when I try to setup my database using php artisan migrate
I get the error:
[IlluminateDatabaseQueryException] could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = homestead and table_name = migrations) [PDOException] could not find driver
config/database.php
file has the relevant connections:
'connections' => [ 'sqlite' => [ 'driver' => 'sqlite', 'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', database_path('database.sqlite')), 'prefix' => '', ], 'mysql' => [ 'driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'), 'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'), 'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'), 'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'), 'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''), 'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''), 'charset' => 'utf8mb4', 'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci', 'prefix' => '', 'strict' => true, 'engine' => null, ], 'pgsql' => [ 'driver' => 'pgsql', 'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'), 'port' => env('DB_PORT', '5432'), 'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'), 'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'), 'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''), 'charset' => 'utf8', 'prefix' => '', 'schema' => 'public', 'sslmode' => 'prefer', ], 'sqlsrv' => [ 'driver' => 'sqlsrv', 'host' => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'), 'port' => env('DB_PORT', '1433'), 'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'), 'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'), 'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''), 'charset' => 'utf8', 'prefix' => '', ], ],
Any ideas?
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Answer
In your php.ini configuration file simply uncomment the extension:
;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
(You can find your php.ini file in the php folder where your stack server is installed.)
If you’re on Windows make it: extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
If you’re on Linux make it: extension=pdo_mysql.so
And do a quick server restart.
If this isn’t working for you, you may need to install pdo_mysql extension into your php library.