laravel cannot find driver (after completing migrations)

Question

This is not the usual "cannot find driver" error message with Laravel. I am able to successfully create migrations and see them reflected in the database. However when I attempt to insert or select, i get the following error:

 QueryException in Connection.php line 647:
could not find driver (SQL: insert into .....

this is from my migration file:

public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('vendors', function (Blueprint $table) {
             $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('vendor_name');
            $table->string('contact_name');
            $table->string('phone_number');
            $table->string('alt_phone_number');P
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->string('address');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

and this is from my store() method in my RESTful Model:

public function store(Request $request)
    {
        //
        Vendor::create(request(['vendor_name', 'contact_name', 'phone_number', 'alt_phone_number', 'email','address']));
        this.index();
    }

I know the request is getting the data, as I am about to do a dd() and view the contents perfectly fine.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25329302/laravel-error-pdoexception-could-not-find-driver-in-postgresql — ashanrupasinghe, May 02 '17 at 04:19
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/php-artisan-migrate-pdoexception-could-not-find-driver-problem — ashanrupasinghe, May 02 '17 at 04:20
Does your `Vendor` model have a `$connection` property defined? — patricus, May 02 '17 at 04:35
i created the Model with eloquent, so while it is not explicitly defined, i believe it is implicitly — Jacob Alley, May 02 '17 at 04:37
that is inside the controller so it is just me calling the index method to return to the '/Vendors/' screen — Jacob Alley, May 02 '17 at 04:38
@ashanrupasinghe i already have done all of that, I would not be able to run the migrations otherwise. — Jacob Alley, May 02 '17 at 04:39
The `this.index()` should be `$this->index()`, that is what @patricus was getting at. — Jacob Lambert, May 02 '17 at 06:21
What does your `Vendor` class look like and what is the full stack trace for that error? — Jacob Lambert, May 02 '17 at 06:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '17 at 04:27

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This worked for me:
For PDOException: could not find driver for MySQL, and if it is Debian based OS,

sudo apt-get -y install php5-mysql

answered May 02 '17 at 04:27

Md.Jewel Mia

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im not using Ubuntu, and i already have Pgsql set up, i would not be able to run the migrations if i didnt. – Jacob Alley May 02 '17 at 04:39

laravel cannot find driver (after completing migrations)

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