Posted by SSMela on 08/27/07 20:22

On Aug 27, 1:38 pm, Andy Hassall <a...@andyh.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:23:57 -0000, Reporter <TruckSaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >According to the PHP Manual,
>
> >"If you would like to install the mysql extension along with the
> >mysqli extension you have to use the same client library to avoid any
> >conflicts."
>
> >I find this confusing because I have two dll libraries installed on my
> >Windows XAMP system:
>
> >(1) php_mysql.dll
> >(2) php_mysqli.dll
>
> >I seem to be able to use functions from both of these libraries, so I
> >am confused as to what the PHP manual is saying.
>
> They're the _extension DLLs_. The _client DLL_ is libmysql.dll, which will be
> loaded by both.
>
> On Windows it's basically a non-issue, since both will load the same
> libmysql.dll (it would take some runtime fiddling with PATH or explict paths
> compiled in to get one extension to load a different libmysql to the other).
>
> On UNIX it may well be possible to statically link one extension against a
> different MySQL client to the other, or even have both dynamically load
> different ones - you'd still have to deliberately mess it up, but it's more
> possible, hence the warning.
> --
> Andy Hassall :: a...@andyh.co.uk ::http://www.andyh.co.ukhttp://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space:: disk and FTP usage analysis tool

Thanks

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