That sort of explains it, but I find it curious (to put it mildly) that there should not be any kind of warning or notice regarding the absence of the mysqli extension in the package. Granted, PHP doesn't cost any money, so I suppose I'm in no position to complain. On 11 Jun 2004 at 13:44, Jason Barnett wrote: > The new releases of MySQL are licensed under the GPL. I read over on > Zend's site that MySQL is trying to make an exception for PHP and a few > other open source projects, but a lot of the people at Zend don't want > to restrict their PHP users. And, a few others thought that they > shouldn't show preferences to any database. > > I was also unpleasantly surprised by this, but since I don't have a > pressing time concern this was no deal for me. Instead, I've learned > how to migrate my databases to another system :) -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php