PHP Artisan Migrate with MAMP and Unix Socket

Question

I was developing my application originally in Laravel 4.2 but have since decided to move it to the 5.0 version so that it covers a lot more changes and strengths that 5.0 has ov

Answer 1

In laravel 5.5 the unix_socket changes to DB_SOCKET

inside .env file :

DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root
DB_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

inside config/database.php:

    'mysql' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),