You're missing one important piece of info. In PHP 4.x, MySQL support was BUILT IN to PHP so you wouldn't need any extra DLLs. In 5.0, MySQL is NOT included and you DO need the DLLs. Make sure you're not mixing PHP 5 DLLs with a PHP 4 installation. I have no clue what that would do. Reference: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.extensions.php <mihai.chira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A1.87.02082.C0D66634@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > hy. today I was in the mood to solve this mysqli problem - and I hit a > dilemma. Really, it's strange (at least for me). Let me tell you the longer > version of the story. > Since a very short while I used php 4.3 in combination with mysql 3.x, which > raised no problems. And since I needed the utf-8 support that mysql 4.1 has, > I made the switch. Then I got some message that the mysql version installed > uses some protocol that is not supported in php. I kinda' freaked out in the > beginning, but after doing a bit of research in the php manual, I found out > that I needed to use the mysqli functions with mysql 4.1 and higher. So here > I am, trying to install them. Surprisingly, my version of php doesn't > include a php_mysqli.dll file in the extensions directory. So I thought that > my version of php is a bit old and so I got the newest 4.x version off the > net. and what do you know: no php_mysqli.dll in the extensions dir. So, with > the last hope I could grasp, I downloaded php 5.0.5, the very last version > of php. This one did have php_mysqli.dll, but when I copied it into the > extensions dir and made the necessary change in the php.ini file, it showed > me a message asking me for a php5 file: "php5ts.dll", which, indeed, was > inside the php5 archive - but which didn't correspond to my version of php. > So I am in a dilemma: is php 4.x not supposed to use php_mysqli.dll at all? > Then what am I supposed to do? > I really don't know what to do now... Please give me a hand if you can. > Thanks. > > "David Collard" <meizawotmeiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:4365DFF6.1000202@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > mihai.chira@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >>hello. can someone please tell me how to install the mysqli extension for > >>windows? I use mysql 4.1, php 4.3.1 and apache 1.3.23. I just upgraded > >>from mysql 3.x to 4.1 and now that I have to use the mysqli functions I > >>get the error: "Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysqli" > >>thank you a lot. > >> > >> > > go into your php.ini, and uncomment the line that says > > ;extension=php_mysqli.dll > > > > when i tried, it wasn't even there and php_mysqli.dll hadn't even been > > included with the installation. also, you can still use the normal mysql > > functions if you want. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
