Re: PHP3 and MySQL

[Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@jml.net>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 08:07:11AM +1030, John Pearson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 07:02:56PM +0000, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote
> > I'm trying to get PHP3 and MySQL to play nice, but they refuse. I want
> > to load the mysql.so extension, so in the /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini I
> > put `extension = mysql.so' and checked that extension_dir was correct.
> > 
> > This didn't work: php3 scripts without dl('mysql.so') in them fail to
> > work:
> > 
> > Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect()
> > in /home/alisdair/public_html/test.php3 on line 4
> > 
> > Why isn't it working? Do I have to recompile PHP3 with MySQL support
> > builtin?
> 
> /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini is used by the Apache PHP3 module; if you
> are running PHP3 as a stand-alone interpreter you should make the
> same
> changes to /etc/php3/cgi/php3.ini

No, I am using the Apache PHP3 module, but just to be safe I tried
that - no difference.

Thanks,
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Alisdair McDiarmid                                   alisdair@jml.net