title: Laravel SQL Server QueryException could not find driver in PHP file
body: <p>In my Laravel when I am executing a simple select query to see if everything is working I am getting the error in my PHP 7.0.1 Laravel page. </p>
  
  <pre><code>QueryException
  could not find driver
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So in order to check everything I wrote simple PHP page without Laravel and I am able to connect to the same DB using the PHP function and this is returning the results means with respect to DB and PHP everything is fine.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      $servername     = "ABBDBDBBD\SQLEXPRESS";
      $connectionInfo = array("Database"=&gt;"DB_NAME", "UID"=&gt;"sa", "PWD"=&gt;"PASSWORD");
  
  
  if($connect)
  {
      $search_query   =   "   SELECT TOP 15 * FROM TBL_CLIENT ";
      $result_query   =   sqlsrv_query($connect,$search_query);
      while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result_query))
      {
          echo $row['CLIENT_MNEMONIC'];
      }
  }
  else
  {
      echo "Not Connected";
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is working fine so my guess is that PHP is working fine with the WAMP but something is not write with my Laravel or I am missing some small thing.
  I changed my Composer PHP version from PHP 5.6 to 7.0.1 during the time I am getting this error.
  Everything in Laravel was working fine when I was using PHP 5.6 but not sure what went wrong. </p>
  
  <p>This is the complete error message in my PHP page.</p>
  
  <pre><code>(3/3) QueryException
  could not find driver (SQL: SELECT TOP 5 * FROM TBL_CLIENT
  WHERE CLIENT_MNEMONIC LIKE 'ac%'
  AND ACTIVE_IND = 1
  ORDER BY CLIENT_MNEMONIC
  )
  
  in Connection.php line 647
  at Connection-&gt;runQueryCallback(' SELECT TOP 5 * FROM TBL_CLIENT WHERE CLIENT_MNEMONIC LIKE \'ac%\' AND ACTIVE_IND = 1 ORDER BY CLIENT_MNEMONIC ', array(), object(Closure))
  in Connection.php line 607
  </code></pre>