Laravel 5 PDOException Could Not Find Driver

Question

I have a problem using Laravel 5. When I run "php aritsan migrate", I got this error

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[PDOException]
could not find driver

I could run the application, but when database connection needed, I got this error

PDOException in Connector.php line 55:
could not find driver
in Connector.php line 55
at PDO->__construct('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb', 'root', '', array('0', '2', '0', false, false)) in Connector.php line 55
at Connector->createConnection('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb', array('driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => 'localhost', 'database' => 'mydb', 'username' => 'root', 'password' => '', 'charset' => 'utf8', 'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci', 'prefix' => '', 'strict' => false, 'name' => 'mysql'), array('0', '2', '0', false, false)) in MySqlConnector.php line 22

How to fix it?

Answer 1

Same thing happend to me after upgrading distro.

Running sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql fixed it for me.

Answer 2

It will depend of your php version. Check it running:

php -version

Now, according to your current version, run:

sudo apt-get install php7.2-mysql

Answer 3

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and PHP 5.6.20

After too many problems, the below steps solved this for me:

1. find php.ini path via phpinfo()

2. uncomment

   extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
   

3. add this line

   extension=pdo_mysql.so
   

4. then run

   sudo apt-get install php-mysql
   

Answer 4

You should install PDO on your server. Edit your php.ini (look at your phpinfo(), "Loaded Configuration File" line, to find the php.ini file path). Find and uncomment the following line (remove the ; character):

;extension=pdo_mysql.so

Then, restart your Apache server. For more information, please read the documentation.

Answer 5

I have tried the following command on Ubuntu and its working for me sudo apt-get install php7.0-mysql

Thanks