OK, thanks for that. I'm about to start a full-time job developing
a portal/intranet and what have you for a tertiary education institution,
and after 'mucking about' with PHP for a couple of years and developing a
few web apps, I realise that there is a lot of detail that I need
to get clear before I start, especially config and security-related stuff. 

I guess there are a lot of people in my situation, who have used PHP for
years without having a good grip on some pretty fundamental stuff. The
difference now is that it matters - my reputation (and that of PHP I
suppose, in my employer's mind at least) is on the line if I muck up.

BTW, I've had some people trying to push me in the direction of Zope for
this job, but I've had a look at it and simply don't get it's 'Zen'. I'm
not knocking it, but I don't see how it betters good, clean OO PHP.

Anyway, thanks again.

Michael

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> The difference between adding a path and not is that without a path the
> bundled mysql client library will be used, whereas if you add a path then
> your system's mysql client libs will be used.  It is usually a good idea
> to use the system libaries if you have them because they are more likely
> to match your server version, and if you are linking against other things
> that might be linked against the mysql client libraries, then using the
> system libraries is a better idea.
> 
> -Rasmus
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Tyler Longren wrote:
> 
> > I've never compiled php with the path to mysql.  I've done this on lots
> > of different servers, and it always works.  I don't know if it's the
> > proper way of doing things, but it does work.
> >
> > --
> > Tyler Longren
> > Captain Jack Communications
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> > www.captainjack.com
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:02:40 +0930 (CST)
> > Michael Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Another PHP compilation question ...
> > >
> > > I've just compiled PHP 4.2.1 --with-mysql. I added no path to mysql,
> > > and it worked fine as it always does. However, I'm keen to add
> > > mod_python as a DSO to Apache as well, and noticed in PHP's INSTALL
> > > notes that I'll probably need to recompile PHP with a path to mysql:
> > >
> > >   --with-mysql=/somewhere/or/other/
> > >
> > > 1. Is this always the case?
> > >
> > > 2. Where would the path be likely to be on RedHat 7.2 with MySQL rpms?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
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