SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'laravel'

Question

I am getting this error while trying to save an object into DB.

SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'laravel' (SQL: insert into cards (card_price, active, updated_at, created_at) values (0, 1, 2019-10-10 15:14:43, 2019-10-10 15:14:43))

.env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=cardgame
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=P@assword1!

Database.php

'mysql' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_T_PASSWORD', ''),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
        'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => '',
        'prefix_indexes' => true,
        'strict' => true,
        'engine' => null,
        'options' => extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') ? array_filter([
            PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => env('MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA'),
        ]) : [],
    ],

CardController.php

  public function generateCards()
  {
  $card = new Card();
  $card->card_price = 0;
  $card->active = 1;
  $card->save();
  }

Web.php

 Route::get('/generate-cards', 'CardController@generateCards');

Card.php

class Card extends Model
{
 protected  $guarded =[];
}

Migration file

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('cards', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->bigIncrements('id');
        $table->integer('card_price');
        $table->integer('active');
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

I've tried clearing cache and also have edited DB_PASSWORD To DB_T_PASSWORD as this corrected a similar issue earlier. Double checked the DB name, passwords etc & also other projects are already running also. I'm not able to figure it out.

Answer 1

1. Go to your localhost server and drop the database and recreate a new one named cardgame

2. Go to your laravel project in console and run php artisan config:cache command. That way all your env variables will be used.

3. Run php artisan:migrate to run your migrations for your database and create your tables.

If you do the above 3 steps in that order you should be fine.

Answer 2

You must clear the cache because your old configuration is in the cache file, just run this command in your terminal for clear cache:

php artisan config:cache