hi, i recently had the same issue as u guys and after using your solutions i now have another problem.

i am running php 5.0.2, apache 2.0.52 on windows XP SP2.

whenever i try to parse .php files from my server the apache server crashes (Apache HTTP Server has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.) . if i comma out (disable) mysql entension in php.ini from loading then that fixes the crash but now i cant use mySQL.

any sugestion would be appreciated.. thanks allot

ok the problem was the wrong libmysql.dll files.. so what i did was copied the original from the php .zip and places them info to system and system32 folders along with the ext and php root..

I installed php 4 ages ago and never had any problems using MYSQL. I am running windows 2000 and mysql 4.22 with apache 2. This is what I did - I downloaded the windows installer.exe for PHP5 from www.php.net. I installed it but it didn't have any of the extensions for mysql.

All you need to do to sort this out is:

1. go into your mysql\bin folder and copy libmySQL.dll into your winnt\system & winnt\system32

2. Download php-5.0.3-Win32.zip from www.php.net (this has all the extensions 'php_mysql.dll')

3. Copy the php_mysql.dll into your php folder

4. Go into the php.ini file in your winnt folder and uncomment extension=php_mysql.dll (make sure your extension_dir in php.ini is pointing to where you put these .dll files).

Hope this helps!!

OK I love you guys <3 i got the problem fixed! am using:

phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-rc2
With PHP5 and when i log into mysql it gives me this error on the bottom.

The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using multibyte charset. Without mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.

When you installed PHP5 did you follow the steps I left in the previous message? What platform are you running PHP5 on?

Am running
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

Am running
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Service Pack 1, v.1280

Computer info
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU
2.66GHz
2.66 GHz, 504 MB of Ram

Running IIS6
PPHP Version 5.0.3
and asp

Am currently trying to install mysql 4.1.8 with the win install but am having that issue.

Mysql is working but it just gives me that error on phpMyAdmin

Check your php.ini if you have this line "extension=php_mbstring.dll" uncommented, it must be!

I was getting the same message,

cannot load MySQL extension,
please check PHP Configuration.

while trying PHP 5.0.2 with mysql on apache 1.3.x.

The following steps works as solution to this problem:

1) in php.ini modify line
extension_dir="./"
to
extension = "c:/php/ext/"

2) uncomment the line
;extension=php_mysql.dll
in php.ini by removing the ';' from the beginning.

3)copy libmysql.dll from c:\php to c:\windows

Then run apache server again.

If you have any problem you can ask me at piyush_aggarwal79@yahoo.com

bye, thank you.

Guys I have tried absolutely everything to get this to work and I'm still having the mysql extension problem. I have all of the .dll files in the right places, my php.ini file has all the right lines uncommented and I still get the error:
cannot load mysql extension,
please check PHP Configuration
Documentation

Maybe my folders aren't placed right - I have:
C:\PHP
C:\phpmyadmin
C:\mysql
Can somebody tell me what they have, is there a specific hierarchy I'm supposed to put them in?
Thanks.