Re: mysqli extension installation

hy. today I was in the mood to solve this mysqli problem - and I hit a dilemma. Really, it's strange (at least for me). Let me tell you the longer version of the story. Since a very short while I used php 4.3 in combination with mysql 3.x, which raised no problems. And since I needed the utf-8 support that mysql 4.1 has, I made the switch. Then I got some message that the mysql version installed uses some protocol that is not supported in php. I kinda' freaked out in the beginning, but after doing a bit of research in the php manual, I found out that I needed to use the mysqli functions with mysql 4.1 and higher. So here I am, trying to install them. Surprisingly, my version of php doesn't include a php_mysqli.dll file in the extensions directory. So I thought that my version of php is a bit old and so I got the newest 4.x version off the net. and what do you know: no php_mysqli.dll in the extensions dir. So, with the last hope I could grasp, I downloaded php 5.0.5, the very last version of php. This one did have php_mysqli.dll, but when I copied it into the extensions dir and made the necessary change in the php.ini file, it showed me a message asking me for a php5 file: "php5ts.dll", which, indeed, was inside the php5 archive - but which didn't correspond to my version of php. So I am in a dilemma: is php 4.x not supposed to use php_mysqli.dll at all? Then what am I supposed to do? I really don't know what to do now... Please give me a hand if you can. Thanks. "David Collard" <meizawotmeiz@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4365DFF6.1000202@gmail.com... > mihai.chira@gmail.com wrote: > >>hello. can someone please tell me how to install the mysqli extension for >>windows? I use mysql 4.1, php 4.3.1 and apache 1.3.23. I just upgraded >>from mysql 3.x to 4.1 and now that I have to use the mysqli functions I >>get the error: "Cannot instantiate non-existent class: mysqli" >>thank you a lot. >> >> > go into your php.ini, and uncomment the line that says > ;extension=php_mysqli.dll > > when i tried, it wasn't even there and php_mysqli.dll hadn't even been > included with the installation. also, you can still use the normal mysql > functions if you want.