I installed a pretty general manual installation of PHP and it's working, I do a phpinfo() and life is good. I can't seem to get it to connect to MySQL though. I read something about the extensions and PEAR and all that. I've got the libraries in my Windows directory and all that but when I do a phpinfo() I get no references to MySQL and I can't connect to the database. MySQL is installed locally on the box. Any ideas? -brian Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx || brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx } --- > YOU! Off my planet!