[php] Laravel 5 PDOException Could Not Find Driver

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?

If your database is PostgreSQL and you have php7.2 you should run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install php7.2-pgsql

and

php artisan migrate

sudo apt-get update

For Mysql Database

sudo apt-get install php-mysql

For PostgreSQL Database

sudo apt-get install php-pgsql

Than

php artisan migrate

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
   

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

Same thing happend to me after upgrading distro.

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

For me the problem was that I was running the migrate command not from inside the container where php was running. The extension was properly set there but not at my host machine.

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

Thanks