i just finished upgrading my php to php5 because i wanted to see the changes, but now my code doesnt do anything at all. like the one to connect to a database. it just gives me a blank white screen so when i went to check phpmyadmin to see if it was even submitting anything i got this error.'


"cannot load MySQL extension, please check PHP Configuration"

im pretty sure that i have installed PHP right. Does php my admin just not work with it, or is there somthing i need to do with mySQL to get it to work with php5. Thanks in advanced for any help that anyone has to offer.

To add to that, heres what happend after i followed the directions to the FRIGGIN T!!!!

i even add the line extension=php_mysql.dll the php.ini file. and when i start i get this error (when i start apache that is)

PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\php\ext\php_mysql.dll' - The specified procedure could not be found

even though if you navigate there on my harddrive its there?? ugh!!

You do know that PHP5 doesn't have MySQL installed like PHP4 right?

PHP5 has SQLite because of licesne differences or something, however you can install it.

well i was able to get most of it figured out. I had to rebuild the structure of the files in PHP5 then i had to move a few files around and add a few lines to the php.ini file to get php_mysql.dll to work again.

Killer_Typo, can you please share your findings in more detail 'cause I'm having the same problem. Thanks!

i honestly dont remember what i did now. but since php5 is now out of alpha and up for release it should be good to install now.

Here's how i solve the prob :

php.ini
extension_dir = "c:\php"

copy php_mysql.dll from c:\php\ext to c:\php
copy libmysql.dll and php_mysql.dll from c:\php to %Systemroot%\system and %Systemroot%\system32

Restart Apache2

Few of thoses steps are facultative but that's what i did.

Enjoy!

Hi,
Had same problem.

Same as above:
copy libmysql.dll
to windows system root system/ and system32/

I left my extention module path to be
php root ext/

though

That should mess with the activation of other modules then.

Thanks for the replies. I'm really not sure why this 'still' isn't working. I have the dll files in the php\ext, php\, system\, AND system32\ folders. I have an environmental path to c:\php. It doesn't matter if I change the extension_dir to c:\php or leave it c:\php\ext. This is all I get with the latest version of phpMyAdmin.

I'd also like to mention that this was working 100% with php4. Any other suggestions 'cause, frankly, I'm a bit stumped on this??

I'm an idiot. PHP5 does not have MySQL enabled by default so the ;extension=php_mysql.dll in the php.ini file needs to be uncommented. Duh! :o

Thanks, everyone, for the assistance.