Re: PHP, MySQL, * Mandrake 8.1

Are you installing php as cgi or as an apache module? What happens when you call a script via the web server? Fred Joe <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:20011202033330.26903.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Good Call. I installed the development packages and php configured, > compiled and installed properly. I am now left with what seems like a > simple problem, which I have not successfully tackled. If I run my program > by typing: php test.php, it does not work. If I do: ./php test.php it does > work. I am assuming the "make install" didn't do what I expected, but I > haven't found the problem yet. Any ideas? > > (Still getting the same error: Undefined function as described below. I > checked for copies all over the filesystem and compared them using md5sum. > All appear to be the same. I am puzzled.) > > jce > > > Fred wrote: > > > I would venture to guess that mysql is installed as a binary distribution. > > PHP needs the sources in order to compile with mysql support. Try > > installing mysql from source or installing the source rpm. > > > > Fred > > > > Joe <none@nowhere.com> wrote in message > > news:20011201221307.53186.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I am trying to use MySQL from PHP. I get the error message: call > > to > >> undefined function: mysql_connect() > >> > >> Based on what I've read, I need to compile PHP with the > >> --use-mysql=/path/to/mysql option. This was not enough information to get > >> the compile to work. (I tried every directory that had *any* mysql files > > in > >> it.) So I ended up compiling just using --use-mysql. This seemed to work, > >> php -v gives me 4.0.6. However, the error still exists: undefined > > function: > >> mysql_connect() (MySQL is definitely installed. I have used the client to > >> build a small database which I can query against.) > >> > >> Could someone please give me a hand here? > >> > >> jce >