ID: 42613 User updated by: patrick at baynewmedia dot com Reported By: patrick at baynewmedia dot com Status: Assigned Bug Type: *General Issues Operating System: Windows XP Pro & Windows Vista PHP Version: 5.2.4 Assigned To: jmertic New Comment:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, no files were moved. Files were only copied in this way: 1. When all DLLs continued to fail to load from the original installation directory (C:\PHP5\ext) I copied them (not moved, just copied) to the root installation directory (C:\PHP5). Now they were duplicated but at least they were being found. Any changes I made to the PHP.ini file regarding the location of extensions seemed to have no effect. I even tried setting it to weird and exotic locations like the "Program Files" directories, and so on. However, they would only load when together with the PHP executable and the INI settings had absolutely no effect (i.e. regardless of where I specified the path, the DLLs always loaded up from C:\PHP5). 2. I commented out the offending DLLs to get a basic PHP installation running (still the same INI file). Now I was getting no errors and phpinfo() showed that PHP was active albeit with no extended functionality. At this point I tried getting MySQL enabled. I placed the "libmysql.dll" file in all of the locations listed in previous entries in this thread along with updating the INI file. I also did a full system search to see if there were any other PHP initialization files sitting anywhere on the system, and to see where all the MySQL DLLs were. Only one INI file exists on my system, libmysql.dll exists in about 6 different locations, and simply doesn't load (PHP can't find it). So to recap: Upon my initial install on a new machine, I only copied the extension DLLs from "C:\PHP5\ext" to "C:\PHP5", effectively creating two copies. Various combinations to the path settings for these extensions resulted in the same thing: nothing. The extension DLLs are only ever recognized when in the same directory as the PHP executable. The only exception to this is the "libmysql.dll" file which fails to load no matter where I put it (previous posts here should describe in greater detail what was tried). The result thus far is that about 60% of the original installation extension DLLs can be loaded. The remainder (listed above) cannot. The MySQL extension fails to load regardless of what I do with it or which version it is. In case I'd forgotten to mention this, all of the above attempts were tried as a regular user (with administrative privileges on my Vista machine), and running as an Administrator. On my XP machine, the results are exactly the same. I also had the thought that Vista or 64-bit had something to do with these failures, but the XP machine is 32-bit, fully up-to-date and all else running smoothly. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-22 13:39:26] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you move the PHP directory or any of it's contents after it was installed? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-22 11:26:50] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assigned to the installer maintainer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-18 16:21:28] patrick at baynewmedia dot com mfvivino at vivmedia dot net: That's another interesting problem and frankly I don't expect the path to be missing for seemingly no reason. I'll keep my eyes open for that and see if it does the trick. Thanks for the research though I'm still of the opinion that this shouldn't be required ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-16 11:00:20] mfvivino at vivmedia dot net It gets weirder for me. I experienced tons of problems with the installer, so scrapped that (did uninstall) and installed manually via .zip which was easy enough. I ONLY enabled mysql, and amazingly enough, it worked!. I ran a simple test: <?php phpinfo(); ?> which reported mysql as enabled; and I was subsequently able to install PHP shopping cart software. So far, so good... Now for the fun part: after rebooting the machine, mysql is being reported as not enabled anymore, so I checked the apache log and sure enough, I see the same cryptic error as others have reported here: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/php52/etx\\php_mysql.dll' - The specified module could not be found. \r\n in Unknown on line 0. And now of course phpinfo() shows mysql indeed is missing I thought perhaps the reference to '\r\n' had something to do with windows linefeeds, so I ran a dos2unix conversion on the php.ini file -- no go. Still the same problem. For fun, I tried disabling mysql and enabling a different module. Doesn't seem to matter, get the same problem with any and all. As others have already noted, this is extremely frustrating -- and atypical. I am also a very long-time PHP user and have not ever experienced this level of difficulty with basic PHP installation/configuration. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-10-11 23:55:53] [EMAIL PROTECTED] During the installer you must have selected to install every extension onto the hard disk, this in turn would have enabled all of those extensions some of which don't work. I'm under the impression that the extension maintainer removed the ones that were broken, but one can still shoot themselves in the foot by enabling everything. Uninstall PHP and then re-install, when you do make sure you only enable the modules that you need. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/42613 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42613&edit=1