Well, I spoke to soon. Now I get a different kind of error.
pritaeas, I have added these two lines to PHP.ini :
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension_dir="/ext"

I have done all the steps in...

I went back and redid the php installation from scratch and did the extra steps you mentioned. Now it works.

So, MySQL is no longer enabled by default, so the php_mysql.dll DLL must be enabled inside of php.ini. How is this done? I searched php.ini and I did not find php_mysql.dll.

In my php.ini file...

I have MySQL running such that I can open a client command line and log on and make databases, tables, etc.

I wanted to do some AJAX. Doing AJAX with ASP, SQL Server, etc is not advisable since...