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

I had this problem for several days, it turns out if I created the db inside phpMyAdmin it wouldn't appear to Laravel, so, I created the db through MySqlWorkbench, and it worked :)