Andrey Repin wrote: > > wgc> I am attempting to learn php programming together with interfacing it to > wgc> an MySQL server from an http web-page. > > Why you are doing it with Cygwin? There's a native MySQL server, native PHP > and native Apache server, that works together very well.
You might as wel ask why am I using cygwin at all, since there's a proprietary Microsoft operating system and it works very well. > What is Cygwin-specific in your aim, that you go into a trouble of running all > the suite under Cygwin? A posix environment is one thing, education, compatibility and transporting are some others. > wgc> I ran into a fatal error. > wgc> The httpd2 server logs shows the following message: > wgc> "PHP Fatal error: Class 'mysqli' not found" > wgc> The phpinfo() function has no mention of the mysqli extension. > wgc> What do I need to do to get this important extension and install it in > for my cygwin environment? > wgc> Any help or advice would be much appreciated. > > Install native applications. Also, switch to PDO ASAP. mysqli_* family of > functions isn't much better than mysql_* ones. You apparently didn't understand my question. It relates to cygwin and mysqli and my attempts to learn and build using it, and not Microsoft Windows. > -- > Sincerely, Andrey Repin > mailto:anrdae...@freemail.ru > > Sorry for my terrible english... Not to worry, I can understand it. Regards -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
