On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 19:57 +0200, M. Sokolewicz wrote: > That's assuming he wanted specifically MySQL. The OP's post did not > actually state _which_ extension he wants to use, nor to which RDBMS he > wants to connect (at all). To the OP: SQL is simply a language, what you > want is a database-system which works with that language. There are a > lot of good DataBase Management Systems, of which MySQL is a commonly > available one. > What you want to do on debian is to aptitude install either: php5-mysql OR php5-pgsql OR oci8 or something else for a different RDBMS. If your db server is a separate machine, you will want the client code as well, which will mean an install of, say, libmysqlclient as well for mysql. If you want both php and db on the same box, simply do an aptitude install mysql-server-5.0 and mysql-client-5.0 as these meta packages will install what you need as well as php5-mysql and/or php5-mysqli --Paul
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