SOLVED: php w/ mysql support compiled in -- can't connect to mysql

For those of you who might be using Debian (and new to linux in general) mysql support for php is offered as a separate package in debian. Just use apt-get install php4-mysql, restart apache and you should be good to go. Hope this helps someone. --kurt -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Lieber [mailto:kurt@lieber.org] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 8:35 AM To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: php w/ mysql support compiled in -- can't connect to mysql OK, there's been another thread floating around about getting: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() Turns out, I'm getting this same error message for both mysql_pconnect as well as plain mysql_connect. I'm using the PHP debian package found in potato. (4.0.3pl1) phpInfo() shows me the configure command which includes: '--with-mysql=shared,/usr' So, I'm assuming that I really have mysql support compiled in. mysql lives in /usr/bin/mysql (and is also the debian potato package) I'm used to windows -- this is the first time I've tried to set up php/mysql on linux, so I'm hoping I'm just overlooking something obvious. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. --kurt