"Linda H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> For those who didn't join this thread at the beginning, I'm running MySQL
> 4.0.21, Apache 2.0.52 and PHP 5.0.2 on a Windows XP system.
>
> I installed in the sequence - MySQL, then Apache, then PHP. MySQL was
> running when the others were installed (which is what the book I am using
> seemed to indicate). Apache was not running when PHP was installed.
>
> >What does php.ini have for this line
> >display_errors = On
>
> Now we are getting somewhere. Even though error_reporting was set to
E_ALL,
> display_errors was Off. I set it On and now I'm getting an error.
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\Program
> Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\example\test_connect.php on line 15
>
> the phpinfo() display doesn't reference MySQL at all. It does reference
> SQLite with the following info:
>
> SQLite supportenabled:
> PECL Module version 2.0-dev $Id: sqlite.c,v 1.146.2.2 2004/08/02 22:43:42
> iliaa Exp $
> SQLite Library: 2.8.14
> SQLite Encoding: iso8859
>
> Directive: sqlite_assoc_case, Local Value: 0, Master Value: 0
>
> So it looks like MySQL didn't get configured with PHP.
>
> In the PHP FAQ on database issues, I found the following:
>
> "
> 4. PHP 5 no longer bundles MySQL client libraries, what does this mean to
> me? Can I still use MySQL with PHP? I try to use MySQL and get "function
> undefined" errors, what gives?
>
> Yes. There will always be MySQL support in PHP of one kind or another. The
> only change in PHP 5 is that we are no longer bundling the client library
> itself. Some reasons in no particular order:
>     * Most systems these days already have the client library installed.
>     * Given the above, having multiple versions of the library can get
> messy. For example, if you link mod_auth_mysql against one version and PHP
> against another, and then enable both in Apache, you get a nice fat crash.
> Also, the bundled library didn't always play well with the installed
server
> version. The most obvious symptom of this being disagreement over where to
> find the mysql.socket Unix domain socket file.
>     * Maintenance was somewhat lax and it was falling further and further
> behind the released version.
>     * Future versions of the library are under the GPL and thus we don't
> have an upgrade path since we cannot bundle a GPL'ed library in a
> BSD/Apache-style licensed project. A clean break in PHP 5 seemed like the
> best option.
>
> This won't actually affect that many people. Unix users, at least the ones
> who know what they are doing, tend to always build PHP against their
> system's libmyqlclient library simply by adding the --with-mysql=/usr
> option when building PHP. Windows users may enable the extension
> php_mysql.dll inside php.ini. Also, be sure libmysql.dll is available to
> the systems PATH. For more details on how, read the FAQ on
>
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php#faq.installation.addtopat
h>setting
> up the Windows systems PATH. Because libmysql.dll (and many other PHP
> related files) exist in the PHP folder, you'll want to add the PHP folder
> to your systems PATH."
>
> I added my PHP folder (C:\php5\) to my system path and restarted
> (libmysql.ddl is in php5). Still get the error. I enabled the extension
> php_mysql.dll in php.ini and Apache startup says it can't find it
> (php_mysql.dll is in C:\php5\ext).

Make sure this is set as follows in php.ini, then restart apache

extension_dir = "c:\php\ext"

>
> So, should I move php_mysql.dll to c:\php5, change the system path, or
> what? And what about php.ini showing sqlite instead of MySQL? Do I need to
> get the MySQL client libraries (what are they called and where do I put
> them - I already have some mysql dll's in the PHP libraries.
>
> Linda

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