larvel 9 PDOException::("could not find driver") on Windows – Laravel

I wanted to connect a MySQL database to my Laravel application.
I created one using PHPMyAdmin administration tool of MySQL, then I added it in the .env as whereas the database.php application files.

I ran the terminal command: php artisan migrate which gave me the following error:

could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = pl_project and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')
  at C:UsersuDocumentspl_project_testpl_project_testvendorlaravelframeworksrcIlluminateDatabaseConnection.php:760
    756▕         // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
    757▕         // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
    758▕         // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
    759▕         catch (Exception $e) {
  ➜ 760▕             throw new QueryException(
    761▕                 $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
    762▕             );
    763▕         }
    764▕     }

  1   C:UsersuDocumentspl_project_testpl_project_testvendorlaravelframeworksrcIlluminateDatabaseConnectorsConnector.php:70
      PDOException::("could not find driver")

  2   C:UsersuDocumentspl_project_testpl_project_testvendorlaravelframeworksrcIlluminateDatabaseConnectorsConnector.php:70
      PDO::__construct()

Here is the .env excerpt that I edited:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=pl_project
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Here is the database.php excerpt that I edited:

'mysql' => [
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
            'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'pl_project'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
            'password' => env('DB_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'),
            ]) : [],
        ]

Here is the output of the command: php -m

[PHP Modules]
bcmath
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
fileinfo
filter
hash
iconv
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqlnd
openssl
pcre
PDO
Phar
readline
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
SPL
standard
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
zip
zlib
[Zend Modules]

A couple of notes:

1. I did add PHP to my env variables as well as MySQL.
2. I did uncomment extension=pdo_mysql in php.ini.

But none of it changed anything and I still get the same error.