Posted by Carl Pearson on 01/27/07 21:01

lukemack wrote:
> hi,
>
> can anyone tell me how to configure php cli with mysql support? i;ve
> tried adding defaul username, password and host in /etc/php5/cli/
> php.ini but this didnt work.
>
> php-m does not list mysql.
>
> php version is 5.1.6 running on Ubuntu 6.10 with Apache/2.0.55
>
> many thanks,
>
> lukemack.
>

PHP doesn't know where the ini file is when run from the cli, so your
MySQL (or any other) extension is never getting loaded.

Try:
php -c /path/to/php.ini

Note this doesn't have to be the same one that Apache uses.

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