Not really sure where I should put this post so feel free to move it if needed. I figured this would be the first place someone would look if they had problems installing it on Hostgator or any other shared server. For the program to install properly I had to create a custom php.ini file and put the following code in it.
error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
display_errors=On
extension="pdo.so"
extension="pdo_mysql.so"
If you don't put this code in the custom php.ini the server will not activate the PDO module in your account.