Re: Debian 11 PHP 7.4 – Mysql 8 - Can’t get Mysqli_connect to work

[Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 6:04 AM Bernard <bdebreil@free.fr> wrote:
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> I have progressed a little in my trials.
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> mysqli.so still shows the previously described problems, and I thought that this was responsible of the fact that mysqli functions were apparently discarded in the test programs I wrote.
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> I discovered that this was due to errors I made in the php program. The errors in the script being corrected, mysqli_connect, mysqli_select_db, mysqli_query... now do operate... despite the errors concerning mysqli.so that I discovered when running the tests which are proposed by 'baeldung.com'
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> "
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> $ php -m | grep mysqli
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> "If the MySQLi extension is enabled, we’ll see mysqli in the output. Otherwise, the output will be empty."
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> php -m grep mysqli
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> PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '//usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so' (tried: //usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so (//usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so: undefined symbol: mysqlnd_global_stats), /usr/lib/php/20190902///usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so.so (/usr/lib/php/20190902///usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
> PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mysqli' (tried: /usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli (/usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so (/usr/lib/php/20190902/mysqli.so: undefined symbol: mysqlnd_global_stats)) in Unknown on line 0
> mysqli

Just observing out loud: What's generating that double slash, i.e. "//usr,"
in the start of the message? That seems like a possible show stopper.

Cindy :)

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Cindy-Sue Causey
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