[PHP-INSTALL] Re: PHP5: problems with installing mysql support (I solved it)

[Glenn Puckett]

I was having the same problem.  I downloaded PHP 5.0.2 and am trying to 
install on WinXP with Apache 1.3.31, MySQL 4.0.14 and Jakarta/mod_jk 1.2.4.

First I installed without MySQL support and verified that PHP is 
working.  Then I tried updating php.ini with the following settings:

extension_dir = "./ext/"
extension=php_mysql.dll
mysql.default_port = 3306
mysql.default_host =  localhost
mysql.default_user = xxxxx       (actual userid changed)
mysql.default_password = yyyyy   (actual password changed)
Now when I start Apache I get the following failure:
"the proceedure entry point mysql_drop_db could not be located in the 
dynamic link library LIBMYSQL.dll"

which is then followed by:
"PHP Startup: unable to load './ext/php_mysql.dll' - The specified 
proceedure could not be found"

What I have discovered is that mysql has it's own libmysql.dll file.  If 
it is in the path before your php directory Apache will pick that one 
up.  I moved the libmysql.dll from php to System32 and Apache now starts 
just fine.

Now my PHP 5.0.2 is working fine with MySQL!!!
Glenn Puckett