Artisan migrate could not find driver

Question

I am trying to install Laravel. I have installed Xampp, but when I try to setup my database using php artisan migrateI get the error:

Answer 1

if you've installed php and mysql in your linux machine, php needs php-mysql extention to communicate with mysql. so make sure you've also installed this extention using:

sudo yum install php-mysql in redhat based machines.

and

sudo apt-get install php-mysql in debian machines.