MySQL and PHP 5

yayalasee · 08-03-2005, 01:07 PM

I installed Fedora Core 4 which comes with PHP (I also installed the MySQL package), but I don't know how to configure PHP 5 to include MySQL functions (they are clearly not enabled as I get function undefined error messages). The PHP manual doesn't really help me on this issue.

Nylex · 08-03-2005, 03:07 PM

If you make a page with

Code:

<?
phpinfo();
?>

, you should see a section with "Configure Command" in it (it's near the top). Look in the grey box, do you see '--with-mysql=/path/to/mysql'? If not, then I think you'll have to rebuild PHP to include support for MySQL (edit: unless you can find an RPM for PHP 5 that's built with it). Unfortunately it isn't enabled by default in PHP 5 (but I guess you've seen this already)

. HTH.