RE: [PHP-DB] php5 and mysql_connect

> AFAIK no version of PHP ever did compile with mysql by default. You *had* to > use --with-mysql if you wanted mysql support. The choice was whether to use > the bundled library (the default if you didn't specify a directory with > --with-mysql) or some other library. <snip> > If this is where you got the above from, then maybe you would like to point > out to them that it is incorrect (not that it matters to people using PHP5 -- > but people using PHP4 might wonder why they don't have mysql support when it > is "supposed to be enabled by default"). <snip> > Actually, reading it again, it doesn't explicitly say the versions of PHP > older than PHP5 enabled by mysql by default. Maybe it is your interpretation > and reading between the lines which led to your above statement :) I'd like to point out to them that it's my intepretation that's incorrect. Only thing is, shucks - it's not. Oh well, can't please all of the people all of the time. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php "In PHP 4, the option --with-mysql is enabled by default. To disable this default behavior, you may use the --without-mysql configure option. Also in PHP 4, if you enable MySQL without specifying the path to the MySQL install DIR, PHP will use the bundled MySQL client libraries." I suppose we could say that it may not have been the default in PHP 3 - but since that was released in '98, that might be pushing it a bit. I can't quickly find any mention of mysql and php3 on php's site - as it relates to builtin support - but my skills in finding information there may not be as honed as yours. Sorry this got a little toasty, but it sure felt like a blind attack, since the most cursory of checks revealed my statements true. Cheers, - Martin Norland, Database / Web Developer, International Outreach x3257 The opinion(s) contained within this email do not necessarily represent those of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.