Re: php4 isn't finding mysql routines

[Brian White <bcwhite@precidia.com>]

The surest way to solve any problem is to ask a question about it...
Apparently it doesn't matter how long you sit on the question, either.
I waited over an hour, working on things, but 30 mins after I send the
question, I find that I need a 'dl("mysql.so")' in the code (found by
installing the php3 packages and reading that documentation).


> I've just finished installing PHP4 and PHP4-MySQL.  I added the module in
> to apache...
> 
>   LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so
> 
> And now php files seem to get executed correctly.  However, as soon as they
> try to access a MySQL database, it appears the functions are not found:
> 
>   Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in ./mysql.php3
>   on line 15
> 
> I can't find anything in the documentation about this.  The "php4-mysql"
> package has a "mysql.so" library file in it, but zero documentation about
> how to use it so I assume it should work out-of-the-box.
> 
> Is there something else I need to do?

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@precidia.com )

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