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

though quite old question, but still can help others. so adding answer.

there is even simple solution. add this to ur .env file

DB_HOST=localhost;unix_socket=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock