Hello Ben-- The MySQL extension has been debundled because MySQL has changed its licensing policy and, effective 4.0, the library is now distributed either under the GPL (which is incompatible with the PHP license) or by purchasing a commercial license. You can still link to the MySQL library by downloading it separately from PHP, installing it and the configuring PHP to point to it. This will work both with 3.x and 4.x. However, technically you can't link against 4.x unless you have a commercial license from MySQL. MySQL has confirmed they're working on an exception that would allow you to link to the 4.x library, but nothing has been made public yet (at least as far as I know). Here are some reference links (note: these are all from my blog. It's not megalomania [well, not all of it, anyway]--I just happened to have collected some info about this whole thing and it's easier for me to reference my own site than someone else's): http://blogs.phparch.com/mt/archives/000014.html http://blogs.phparch.com/mt/archives/000019.html http://blogs.phparch.com/mt/archives/000023.html These also include some comments directly from MySQL on this whole thing. Cheers, Marco On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 21:24, Ben Lake wrote: > Howdy All, > > Anyone have an input on the recent announcement that about MySQL > libraries not being present in PHP 5. What other means might be > available to connect to MySQL? > > I took a look at the MySQL license, and I am assuming it was the change > to the "MySQL drivers" needing a commercial license to be used that is > causing all of the fuss? > > Correct me if I'm wrong, just trying to figure out what's going to > happen to some legacy stuff when 5 hits the fan! > > Thanks, > > Ben Lake -- Marco Tabini President Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc. 28 Bombay Avenue Toronto, ON M3H 1B7 Canada Phone: (416) 630-6202 Fax: (416) 630-5057 Web: http://www.tabini.ca -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
