PHP PDO exception: could not find driver

Question

Does the MySQL-server and PHP5-MySQLi version have to match in order for a connection to be possible? I\'m currently receiving the error below: I am running BSD. \"Fatal e

Answer 1

Thanks to zerkms and John C for pointing me in the right direction. Below are the commands I used to install the driver:

#cd /usr/ports/databases/php5-pdo_mysql
#make install clean
#apachectl restart

Answer 2

I had this same issue on my CentOS install. I had tried to install imagick and hosed my install. When I removed all of my php files and reinstalled something wasn't working right.

I ran:

yum install php-pdo
yum install php-pdo_mysql

After doing those two lines I ran

service httpd restart

and everything came back up and running.

Answer 3

PDO uses database specific drivers to connect to database systems. It looks like you are missing the pdo_mysql driver that is required to connect to a MySQL database. There is some details on installing the driver on the pdo_mysql manual page, or there may be a BSD package that you can use (I am afraid I'm not familiar enough with BSD to offer specific advice).