Laravel PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'forge'

Question

I am using Laravel to connect to MySQL database.

I got this exception:

PDOException
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database \'forge\'

Answer 1

Note: Once it happened that I accidentally had a space before my database name such as mydatabase instead of mydatabase, phpmyadmin won't show the space, but if you run it from the command line interface of mysql, such as mysql -u the_user -p then show databases, you'll be able to see the space.