This is on a new install, so in each case I am using the install/setup program provided, which worked under SuSE 9.1
phpMyAdmin - the MySQL administrator program - works fine, YAST shows MySQL up and running.
phpBB2 reports:
"The PHP configuration on your server doesn't support the database type that you chose"
Database type is MySQL 4.x
LiveHelp reports:
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /srv/www/htdocs/livehelp/setup.php on line 159"
Sounded to me like a missing library, so I checked through YAST and MySQL has a php-MySQL module installed, MySQL also shows the php-MySQL module installed.
Which is where I got stuck
Pete