The culprit was an outdated libmysql.dll supplied with XAMPP. Got updated one from the newest distribution of PHP and copied it into xampp\apache\bin and that solved the issue.
Thanks Anees wrote: > > When i tried to call the site it shows an error from Apache and page is > not loading > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Strange-error-with-XAMPP-and-Zend-tp22407800p22407884.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.