title: Laravel not connected with mysql database
body: <p>I am new in the laravel also in stackoverflow, I tried to configure database in my laravel application. but it is not working and always shows error to me. here is my database.php file.</p>
  
  <p><strong>database.php</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  return [
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | PDO Fetch Style
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | By default, database results will be returned as instances of the PHP
      | stdClass object; however, you may desire to retrieve records in an
      | array format for simplicity. Here you can tweak the fetch style.
      |
      */
  
      'fetch' =&gt; PDO::FETCH_CLASS,
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Default Database Connection Name
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here you may specify which of the database connections below you wish
      | to use as your default connection for all database work. Of course
      | you may use many connections at once using the Database library.
      |
      */
  
      'default' =&gt; 'mysql',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Database Connections
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Here are each of the database connections setup for your application.
      | Of course, examples of configuring each database platform that is
      | supported by Laravel is shown below to make development simple.
      |
      |
      | All database work in Laravel is done through the PHP PDO facilities
      | so make sure you have the driver for your particular database of
      | choice installed on your machine before you begin development.
      |
      */
  
      'connections' =&gt; [
  
          'sqlite' =&gt; [
              'driver'   =&gt; 'sqlite',
              'database' =&gt; storage_path().'/database.sqlite',
              'prefix'   =&gt; '',
          ],
  
          'mysql' =&gt; [
              'driver'    =&gt; 'mysql',
              'host'      =&gt; 'localhost',
              'database'  =&gt; 'horsi',
              'username'  =&gt; 'root',
              'password'  =&gt; '',
              'charset'   =&gt; 'utf8',
              'collation' =&gt; 'utf8_unicode_ci',
              'prefix'    =&gt; '',
              'strict'    =&gt; false,
          ],
  
          'pgsql' =&gt; [
              'driver'   =&gt; 'pgsql',
              'host'     =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
              'database' =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'horsi'),
              'username' =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
              'password' =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
              'charset'  =&gt; 'utf8',
              'prefix'   =&gt; '',
              'schema'   =&gt; 'public',
          ],
  
          'sqlsrv' =&gt; [
              'driver'   =&gt; 'sqlsrv',
              'host'     =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
              'database' =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'horsi'),
              'username' =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
              'password' =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
              'prefix'   =&gt; '',
          ],
  
      ],
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Migration Repository Table
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | This table keeps track of all the migrations that have already run for
      | your application. Using this information, we can determine which of
      | the migrations on disk haven't actually been run in the database.
      |
      */
  
      'migrations' =&gt; 'migrations',
  
      /*
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      | Redis Databases
      |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
      |
      | Redis is an open source, fast, and advanced key-value store that also
      | provides a richer set of commands than a typical key-value systems
      | such as APC or Memcached. Laravel makes it easy to dig right in.
      |
      */
  
      'redis' =&gt; [
  
          'cluster' =&gt; false,
  
          'default' =&gt; [
              'host'     =&gt; '127.0.0.1',
              'port'     =&gt; 6379,
              'database' =&gt; 0,
          ],
  
      ],
  
  ];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am also attaching my .env files</p>
  
  <pre><code>APP_ENV=local
  APP_DEBUG=true
  APP_KEY=SomeRandomString
  
  DB_HOST=localhost
  DB_DATABASE=horsi
  DB_USERNAME=root
  DB_PASSWORD=
  
  CACHE_DRIVER=file
  SESSION_DRIVER=file
  QUEUE_DRIVER=sync
  
  MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
  MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
  MAIL_PORT=2525
  MAIL_USERNAME=null
  MAIL_PASSWORD=null
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also tried to configure my database like</p>
  
  <pre><code>'host'      =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
              'database'  =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'horsi'),
              'username'  =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
              'password'  =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it is not working, anyone can help me to get the solution</p>
  
  <p>Error:  null in place of username and poassword</p>
  
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