I am getting an error saying The mysql driver is not currently installed

PDO, unlike the mysql_* functions, supports a number of database engines. To do this it needs a driver library for each one.

You have the "core" of PDO installed but not the MySQL driver - just get that installed (called pdo_mysql) and everything will be OK.

Your php.ini should have one of these (windows or linux):

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
extension=php_pdo_mysql.so