note 48434 deleted from ref.mysql by googleguy

Note Submitter: tumaine no at spam verizon net ---- I had a hard time with upgrading to php version 5.2.0 in Windows XP Pro since mySQL queries all of a sudden stopped working and led to blank pages on my site. I spent a good half day searching google trying to figure out this problem, and didn't quite know how compiling PHP would help me. It is not necessary. Set up PHP manually with the ZIP folder download. This is a good link to read and wish I found it earlier: http://www.zend.com/manual/install.windows.extensions.php If you are getting an error popup about not being able to load some mysql.dll when starting apache, you need to change this in your php.ini file: extension_dir = "./" to something like "c:\php\ext" Also what I was doing wrong was that I forgot to uncomment the following line in my php.ini file: extension=php_mysql.dll Restart apache, and everything should work. Thought that I could save someone time and frustration when upgrading, since versions 5+ do not include mySQL support by default as earlier versions apparently do.