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Pulling my frickin' hair out trying to get PHP4 to talk to a PostgreSQL 7.2 database on Linux. PGSQL is up and running no problem. In my php code I have tried: dl("pgsql.so") even though there is no pgsql.so on the server so I copy the /lib/libpgsql.2.2.so into place and rename. PHP erros out that pgsql.so is not a PHP library. Tried include("DB/pgsql.php") and this gives endless errors about class db_common can't inherit this that bla bla bla. Isn't there any clear cut examples or step-by-step how tos? What am I missing here? By the way, I have set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I have included pgsql/lib path in /etc/ld.so.conf. Compiled PHP4 as with: ./configure --enable-track-vars --with-gettext --enable-force-cgi-redirect --with-apache=../apache_1.3.26 --without-mysql --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgql PHP & Apache are working just none of my database code works. Any ideas, suggestions are greatly appreciated.