could not find driver in laravel 7 application

Question

I am trying to connect the database with my Laravel 7 application but each time when I hit php artisan migrate I am getting the following errors.

I have connected my.env file as below:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=test
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=""

Illuminate\Database\QueryException

  could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = test and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')

  at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:671
    667|         // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
    668|         // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
    669|         // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
    670|         catch (Exception $e) {
  > 671|             throw new QueryException(
    672|                 $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
    673|             );
    674|         }
    675| 

      +32 vendor frames 
  33  artisan:37
      Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::handle()

I have tried several ways including uncommenting an extension in the php.ini file but nothing changed!

Answer 1

Are you on Linux? If yes you'll have to install the php-mysql package if you're on Ubuntu and php-mysqlnd package if you're on Fedora.

On Windows and macOS all these stuff come built into WAMP or MAMP or whatever one uses.