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

* 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 decision to leave mysql out of default installation was already decided. > > 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 on the > Mysql AB mysqlclient library? You can compile php with any MySQL version of your choice, the license issues above only affected PHP's ability to bundle the package with MySQL support included by default. You just need to include in your unix configure script: --with-mysql=/install/dir/of/mysql Or Simply uncomment: ;extension=mysql.dll In the php.ini for windows. HTH. Curt -- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."