[Sussex] Getting PHP to work with MySQL

[Brendan Whelan]

Paul, Thanks for the response. I have already installed php-gd, 
php-mbstring and php-mcrypt (the latter two are need to get phpmyadmin 
to work properly). When I try "yum install php-mysql" or "yum install 
php-mysql.i386" I get "Nothing to do".  Brendan

Paul Turner wrote:
> I had a similar issue when configuring a Centos server.
>
> This was resolved by:
> 	
> 	yum install php-mysql 
>
>
> I also installed the following (not needed for MySQL):
>
> 	yum install php-gd 
> 	yum install php-mbstring
>
> As Fedora & Centos are both part of the RedHat family maybe this will work
> for you too.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Brendan Whelan
> Sent: 05 Feb 2008 16:12
> To: Simon Dawson; Sussex LUG
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Getting PHP to work with MySQL
>
> Simon, you are right it should be mysql_connect() - I simply memorised 
> the message one one machine and then (incorrectly) type it into my email 
> message. So the basic problem still exists. Brendan
>
> Simon Dawson wrote:
>   
>> Very quickly - don't know whether it is a typo on your part but it should
>>     
> be 
>   
>> mysql_connect not mysql-connect.
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>> regards
>> Simon
>>
>> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:56, Brendan Whelan wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I have just installed a copy of Fedora Core 6 and I'm having trouble
>>> getting PHP programs to connect to a MySQL database.
>>> Individually, the PHP and MySQL both work but when I try to connect from
>>> a PHP program to MySQL I get "Call t undefined function
>>> mysql-connect()".  The mysql connection looks to be configured in
>>> php.ini. The log files aren't showing anything useful. I tried did a
>>> search in yum for php-mysql and then ran "yum install php-mysql.i386",
>>> which gave "nothing to do".  A mysql.so file resides in
>>> /usr/lib/php/modules/
>>> I have exhausted what I can think of doing - any suggestions. Thanks,
>>> Brendan
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