Laravel not connected with mysql database
<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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