RE [PHP-INSTALL] PHP-MySQL connector installation problem on Windows

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Hello

try to add a backslash at the end of
your extension_dir config line in your php.ini like : C:\php\extensions\
and reload ur phpinfo script to see what's the result 

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Rory M Larson <rlarson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit
sur 05/11/2007 18:20:08 :

> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I seem to be having trouble getting the PHP-MySQL connector to work.
> I hope this is the right list to ask. 
> 
> I have installed the latest versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL on two
> workstations, one XP and one Vista.  These are for development,
and 
> should not be reachable from outside due to a hardware firewall. 
> 
> Working from the O'Reilly book "Learning PHP and MySQL"
by Davis and
> Phillips, the final step is to install the MySQL Connector, which
is
> obtained from dev.mysql.com.  The test that the connection is
> working is supposed to be that when you call the phpinfo page, you
> get a section in the middle of the page with the heading MySQL. 
> 
> Whatever I try, I do not get this on either machine.  The procedure
> is supposed to be that you download a zip file containing two files,
> libmysql.dll and php_mysql.dll.  libmysql.dll needs to be put
in a 
> directory that is in the system path, and php_mysql.dll needs to go
> in a directory you create under the php root directory, called 
> extensions.  Then the php.ini file has to be edited to include
the lines 
> 
>         extension_dir = C:\php\extensions 
>         extension=php_mysql.dll 
> 
> Then the Apache server is to be restarted and the connection should
work. 
> 
> My first point of confusion is that dev.mysql.com now features two
> separate zip downloads with two versions of their connector file:
> php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll.  They recommend php_mysqli.dll
> strongly, but never make it quite clear whether this is in addition
> to the old php_mysql.dll, or whether it replaces it.  If anybody
can
> explain how these relate to each other from an installation 
> perspective, I would surely appreciate it. 
> 
> Beyond that, I'm grasping at straws.  Most of the examples assume
> that the php root directory is directly under the C: drive, but the
> Windows installer package put it under C:\Program Files.  I've
> compensated for the different path name in the php.ini file.  
> Hopefully there's nothing hard-coded that's looking for C:\php. 
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Rory