[demiann]

Hello everybody,

I am a newbie first time posting...

I use PHP 5 beta & MySQL 4 on WinXP for local development. While I have no troubles connecting and creating databases thru command line, I cannot connect from PHP page.

Here is the simple code:

<?php

$host="localhost";
$username="root";
$password="";

$link = mysql_connect($host,$username,$password) or die("Unable to connect to database");
echo "Connected successfully";

?>

Which gives me this error in IE:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\Documents and Settings\...(path to the root folder here)...\webs\tryout\dbconnect.php on line 10

Line 10 is the line with call to mysql_function

I actually enabled extension php_mysql.dll in php.ini and copied libMysql.dll into system root (system32) folder and still same thing...

Thank you,
Demainn

[blaw]

Hi there,

It is probably because of the PHP version you are using. According to PHP.net, they took away the bundled MySQL client library from version 5 for good reasons:

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/faq.data...ses.mysql.php5

I strongly recommend that you go through the rest of change logs if you continue using PHP 5 beta, as there are many more changes since PHP 4.

HTH. Good night.

[demiann]

Yes, I went thru it. I guess I will just install PHP 4 for right now until 5 goes stable.


Thanks.

[blaw]

Hi again,

Yes, I went thru it. I guess I will just install PHP 4 for right now until 5 goes stable.

It's probably better for you that way, if you call yourself a "newbie". Betas are meant for developers who could contribute bug reports, etc, to the PHP team.

Happy coding. =)