php artisan migrate : PDOException could not find driver

Sometimes there are two different PHP versions installed on a machine, one for CLI and one for the web server.

Check your phpinfo what php.ini is being used and also run php --ini in your CLI and check if it's the same.

@ SaeedPrez

Yes, the phpinfo and php --ini show two different php.ini files.

But php version on php -v (on command prompt) is same as reflected on phpinfo()( on http server). Both show the updated version 5.6.

@kanav_kapoor

That tells us you either have two installations of php 5.6 or are using same installation but two different configuration files.

@SaeedPrez

Any solution?

@kanav_kapoor the simples would be to edit your CLI PHP config file and enable the pdo modules..

@SaeedPrez

That's the problem bro. Which module to enable?

I am unable to find any pdo_mysql module that i can download or enable for OS X EL Captain.

See if you have the following line, uncomment it..

// Find this
;extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

// Change to this
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

I tried that already. Gives error:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/Cellar/php56/5.6.23/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/php_pdo_mysql.dll' - dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/php56/5.6.23/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/php_pdo_mysql.dll, 9): image not found in Unknown on line 0

@kanav_kapoor I'm not a mac/linux pro, but I believe you can run php -i | grep .ini to see if you have pdo_mysql installed.

My problem is solved by:

brew unlink php56
brew install php56 --with-mysql

Can't believe it was that simple. I wasted about 4-5 hours on this stupid error. Thanks @SaeedPrez

For Ubuntu 16.04 and PHP7 use sudo apt-get install php-mysql.

It solved my problem.

@kabircse I did that and it still gives me the driver error.

I also have that issue but I executed migrate and seed command through route like that and it's solved my problem.

Route::get('/test', function(){
    Artisan::call('migrate');
    Artisan::call('db:seed');
});