I use this setup locally for testing/playing. I recently installed the latest and greatest of the AMP collection. Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.2 MySQL 5.0.37 Apache and PHP work fine together, but I wanted to hook it up to a local test database, so I installed MySQL. In php.ini, i have: ; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside. extension_dir = "C:\PHP" i made sure that i moved the dll to that folder, just like i did with the gd dll. And then i uncommented this line: extension=php_mysql.dll I restarted Apache, and ran a simple test script: <?php ini_set("display_errors","1"); $cn = mysql_connect("localhost","root","password"); ?> and I get the error: *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() any ideas? thanks in advance, jason