Posted by Martin Jay on 12/23/05 11:49

In message <H1wqf.3406$nj1.167@fed1read07>, anon <not@email.com> writes
>i've installed php5 on my windows 2003 IIS server. everything seemed to
>work fine.
>initially i changed a bunch of php.ini settings and they worked fine. now i
>am trying to have the php connect to mysql server, so i uncommented the
>line:

>extension=php_mysql.dll

>to enable things like mysql_connect() and set my extension_dir =
>"c:\php\ext" so it can load that php_mysql.dll from the correct path. also,
>my c:\php\ directory is in the windows environment path, so no problems
>there... but then i run a php page with phpinfo() it outputs this values:

>extension_dir C:\php5

>and it doesn't have the expected mysql module section... i don't even have a
>php5 directory on this computer, and i tried searching the php.ini for
>"php5" but it's not even found....

C:\php5 appears to be the default directory where PHP looks for
extensions.

On my system php -i returns:

extension_dir => C:\php5 => C:\php5

And I have no php.ini file. So it seems likely that PHP on your machine
is not finding your php.ini file.

The installation information that comes with PHP5 contains the
following:

"PHP searches for php.ini in the following locations (in
order):

* PHPIniDir directive (Apache 2 module only)
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP\IniFilePath
* The PHPRC environment variable
* Directory of PHP (for CLI), or the web server's directory (for
SAPI modules)
* Windows directory (C:\windows or C:\winnt)"

If I were you I'd set the registry key mentioned, or simply put php.ini
into the Windows directory.
--
Martin Jay

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