Re: PHP3 and MySQL

[Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@jml.net>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 02:05:16PM +0000, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> You can use   dl('../apache/mysql.so')  to load the lib.

I know this already (see above!) but I don't want to do it in the
scripts, I want to do it in the config file.
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Alisdair McDiarmid                                    alisdair@jml.net