On my Windows 11, I have PostgreSQL 17.4 and pgAdmin 4 v9.0

Installed PHP and Composer using the Windows Powershell command https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/installation#installing-php Note that the script referenced by the above command https://php.new/install/windows has only three lines to create php.ini

(I am using the utility Cmder, a Consule Emulator on Windows to run unix like commands below).

C:\Users\john
λ php --ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path:
Loaded Configuration File:         C:\Users\john\.config\herd-lite\bin\php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: (none)
Additional .ini files parsed:      (none)

C:\Users\john
λ cat C:\Users\john\.config\herd-lite\bin\php.ini
variables_order = "GPCS"
opcache.enable=1
opcache.enable_cli=1

C:\Users\john
λ php -m | grep pdo
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite

Online posts recommend commenting out the line from php.ini file, but there are only 3 lines, none related to drivers.

If I continue to install a Laravel app using the command laravel new example-app, during the wizard, I see the message [pgsql ] PostgreSQL (Missing PDO extension)

 Which database will your application use? [SQLite]:
  [sqlite ] SQLite
  [mysql  ] MySQL
  [mariadb] MariaDB
  [pgsql  ] PostgreSQL (Missing PDO extension)
  [sqlsrv ] SQL Server (Missing PDO extension)

I want to use Artisan (not Apache) and want php to work with PostgreSQL. I don't want to use Herd Pro either. How can I make the PHP include the pdo_pgsql?