Otherwise, it consistently gives me errors "Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()...".If you're getting an error...
If you're getting this error, there is a line of code in the php script that is trying to connect to a mysql database and the mysql extension for php is not installed. So php doesn't know this function is supposed to do hence, the "undefined function" error.
I can only see the HTML code of the php functions I call within the code at the command output in text format, but I cannot see it on the "browser."
I'm a little confused about what you mean here. You shouldn't see any HTML code in your browser.
Wei, Alice J. wrote:
Hi,
I have originally commented out all the MS SQL lines in the php.ini files so that it supports MS SQL, but that does not seem to work. MySQL? Since I am not using that to connect my PHP to, do I still need to install it? By the way, my Microsoft SQL server database is on a different Windows machine.
Alice
-----Original Message-----
From: DeadTOm [mailto:deadtom@mtlaners.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:29 PM
To: Wei, Alice J.; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP Runs But Does Not Display on Linux
Do you have php-mysql installed? In ubuntu for php5 the package is
php5-mysql.
-Allen
Wei, Alice J. wrote:
Hi,
I am currently using a Linux box with Fedora to run my PHP scripts, which I have seen in the download page at http://www.php.net/downloads.php that
We do not distribute UNIX/Linux binaries. Most Linux distributions come with PHP these days.
What I am wondering is, if I can run my scripts by using the command like php some_php.php, as long as it does not require me to have it displayed on the web page or in need of using a mssql_connect function, it does not give me any errors at all. Otherwise, it consistently gives me errors "Call to undefined function: mysql_connect()...".
I can only see the HTML code of the php functions I call within the code at the command output in text format, but I cannot see it on the "browser."
Are these two errors related? I tried installing PHP and Apache afterwards, but it seems that it is not providing a different message. Have I missed something here?
Anything is appreciated.
Alice
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Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@indiana.edu