PDOException “could not find driver” in php - php

Question

I have installed Lampp on my linux system, and I am learning symfony2, while trying to create the schema with symfony2 command
php app/console doctrine:schema:create
I am getting the following error message:-
PDOException “could not find driver”
I also uncomment this line extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll in php.ini file
I tried to look and google my issue but couldn't resolve my problem. when i run php -m command i am getting the following result:-
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/mysql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/mysqli.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/mysqli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/pdo_mysql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20090626+lfs/pdo_mysql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
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Is there a way i can remove this issue ?

Answer 1

In Ubuntu, write in the console
sudo apt-get install php5-gd php5-mysql
and it will work

Answer 2

Hope you are running your project in localhost. In your project folder app/config a file named parameters.ini , Make sure that your Mysql database connection cofiguration is correct. If you are using mysql See database_driver=pdo_mysql is its driver.
Below is an example.
database_driver = pdo_mysql
database_host = localhost
database_port =
database_name = databasename
database_user = msqlusername
database_password = mysqlpassword//if not make blank
mailer_transport = smtp
mailer_host = localhost
mailer_user =
mailer_password =
locale = en
secret = ThisTokenIsNotSoSecretChangeIt
Hope it helps you.

Answer 3

You need to have a module called pdo_mysql.
Look for the following in phpinfo() output,
pdo_mysql => PDO Driver for MySQL, client library version => 5.1.44
to install pdo_mysql you need to do this:
pecl install pdo
pecl install pdo_mysql
and then add the following to your php.ini file:
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

Answer 4

brew install php70-pdo-pgsql
in case you installed php7 on mac with brew and, change php version according to what you have installed.

Answer 5

if you are using XAMPP then in php.ini file line no 897(depends on version),
;extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll
uncomment it , then it appears like below
extension=php_pdo_pgsql.dll
in php.ini file line no 897, then restart XAMPP.

Answer 6

There are two PHP versions installed in my server PHP 5.6 and PHP 7
When I run the command php app/console doctrine:schema:update I have the error : [PDOException] could not find driver
I resolve this error by specifying the PHP version:
php5.6 app/console doctrine:schema:update

Answer 7

Looks like your install is missing the .so files it needs to implement the mysql connection. If you're using a package management system to install PHP then make sure you've installed all the necessary submodules (in this case I think you'll need mysql-dev, and the various PHP PDO modules), though such dependencies should have been resolved for you by the package manager.
If you didn't go through a package manager, then you'll have to compile the required .so files from source.

Answer 8

I had the same problem and for me, it was having multiple PHP versions.
So specifying the full address of the PHP solved the problem.

Answer 9

Adding to Jaspreet Chahal's answer.
When installing PDO as a shared module, the php.ini file needs to be updated so that the PDO extension will be loaded automatically when PHP runs. You will also need to enable any database specific drivers there too; make sure that they are listed after the pdo.so line, as PDO must be initialized before the database-specific extensions can be loaded. If you built PDO and the database-specific extensions statically, you can skip this step(Source).
What I mean is, it should look something like this -
extension=pdo.so should be placed before the extensions of the different database drivers.

Answer 10

Maybe you forget to install doctrine/dbal
composer update
composer require doctrine/dbal
if it didn't work go to your php.ini (according to current version)
and remove ";"
;extension=pdo_mysql.so