artisan migration error “Class 'Doctrine\\DBAL\\Driver\\PDOMySql\\Driver' not found”

Question

When trying to run a migration I get the error Artisan migration

[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError]

Class 'Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOMySql\Driver' not found

i already installed doctrine/dbal using

composer require doctrine/dbal

and on my composer.json already had

doctrine/dbal": "^3.0"

but i still got this error

Answer 1

This new version is having this issue. a workaround for that can be:

1. change version to "doctrine/dbal": "^2.12.1" in composer.json file
2. run composer update

Answer 2

"composer require doctrine/dbal ^2.12.1"

In updated versions of doctrine/dbl, Integration with PDO has been reworked. The php_pdo extension is no longer a hard dependency of the doctrine/dbal package. The PDO API is not longer the standard for DBAL APIs.

• The following database platforms are no longer supported: ( Drizzle, MariaDB 10.0 and older, Microsoft Azure, PostgreSQL 9.3 and older, SQL Anywhere, SQL Server 2008 and older.)

• The following drivers are no longer supported: ( pdo_ibm, sasql. )

• Passing a PDO instance initialized outside of the DBAL is no longer supported.

Here is the reference document (https://github.com/doctrine/dbal/releases)