Exception 'could not find driver' while migration in yii2

Question

This my stack trace:

  Exception 'yii\db\Exception' with message 'could not find driver'

in /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Connection.php:534

#0 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Connection.php(836): yii\db\Connection->open()
        #1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Connection.php(823): yii\db\Connection->getMasterPdo()
        #2 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Command.php(208): yii\db\Connection->getSlavePdo()
        #3 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Command.php(816): yii\db\Command->prepare(true)
        #4 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Command.php(350): yii\db\Command->queryInternal('fetchAll', NULL)
        #5 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/mysql/Schema.php(198): yii\db\Command->queryAll()
        #6 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/mysql/Schema.php(97): yii\db\mysql\Schema->findColumns(Object(yii\db\TableSchema))
        #7 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Schema.php(140): yii\db\mysql\Schema->loadTableSchema('migration')
        #8 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/controllers/MigrateController.php(121): yii\db\Schema->getTableSchema('{{%migration}}', true)
        #9 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/controllers/BaseMigrateController.php(610): yii\console\controllers\MigrateController->getMigrationHistory(NULL)
        #10 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/controllers/BaseMigrateController.php(102): yii\console\controllers\BaseMigrateController->getNewMigrations()
        #11 [internal function]: yii\console\controllers\BaseMigrateController->actionUp(0)
        #12 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/InlineAction.php(55): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
        #13 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Controller.php(151): yii\base\InlineAction->runWithParams(Array)
        #14 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Controller.php(91): yii\base\Controller->runAction('', Array)
        #15 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Module.php(455): yii\console\Controller->runAction('', Array)
        #16 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Application.php(161): yii\base\Module->runAction('migrate', Array)
        #17 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Application.php(137): yii\console\Application->runAction('migrate', Array)
        #18 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Application.php(375): yii\console\Application->handleRequest(Object(yii\console\Request))
        #19 /opt/lampp/htdocs/advanced/yii(31): yii\base\Application->run()
        #20 {main}

I am new to yii2. I have added database name,username in advaced/common/config/main-local.php. Using xampp webserver and version of php is 5.6.8 and PDO is also enabled.

This is my db configuration.

'db' => [
        'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
        'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2advanced',
        'username' => 'root',
        'password' => '',
        'charset' => 'utf8',
    ],

Answer 1

Found this on Yii2

"Most likely it is your system config. If you are using packages like MAMP, XAMPP or other, you may need to change "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in your db.php configuration file. Also if you are on Linux you may need to install some other additional packages like php5-mysql and stuff like that."