Benj Arriola writes:
> Knowing PHP supports every database, why on the download page it > mentions something about MySQL? And why use the words "built-in". I was > assuming MySQL came with it already. Normally you need to link with the mysql client libraries, but PHP provides a substitute for those. There are some warnings about using the builtin MySQL support, but as fas as I recall it's only a problem if you have both PHP3 and PHP4 as concurrent apache modules. I might be wrong on this tho. > I guess to find out, I'll have to install it, but being far from the US > and with small bandwith, downloading large files is not always ideal to > do. :-) There are plenty of mirrors, but they're all pretty well-connected to each other, so I think they mostly exist to provide a primitive form of load balancing. :-P //C -- Carl Troein - Círdan / Istari-PixelMagic - UIN 16353280 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://pixelmagic.dyndns.org/~cirdan/ Amiga user since '89, and damned proud of it too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
