Re: [PHP] mysql and the PHP transition from 4 to 5.

2004-10-22 Thread Curt Zirzow
* Thus wrote Nick Lane-Smith: > Hello php-list, > > I'm curious to why default mysql support was dropped from PHP 5? It was due to the changes in the mysql license. Due to the changes the PHP Team decided not to enable mysql by default. MySQL had modified there license but it was too late, the

Re: [PHP] mysql and the PHP transition from 4 to 5.

2004-10-21 Thread raditha dissanayake
Nick Lane-Smith wrote: Hello php-list, I'm curious to why default mysql support was dropped from PHP 5? The separation seems to have been done for license issues with the mysql library. PHP 4.X uses a libmysql with an abandoned copyright for mysql access. Suffice to say it's pretty hard to find pe

[PHP] mysql and the PHP transition from 4 to 5.

2004-10-21 Thread Nick Lane-Smith
Hello php-list, I'm curious to why default mysql support was dropped from PHP 5? The separation seems to have been done for license issues with the mysql library. PHP 4.X uses a libmysql with an abandoned copyright for mysql access. Would the libmysql still work with PHP 5, or is PHP 5 dependent