Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 01/17/05 23:30

Phillip S. Baker wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am runnign into a strange problem.
> I am working on a Linux box.
> Running PHP 4.2.2
> Apache 2.0
> And it has MySQl installed on it (not sure of the version.
>
> I ran a quick script to check to make sure the connection to the DB is
> working fine as this is a very secure connection (have to do 2 SSH tunnesl
> to get in.)
>
> <?php
> $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'some_un', 'some_pw');
> if (!$link) {
> die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
> }
> echo 'Connected successfully';
> mysql_close($link);
> ?>
>
> However when I ran that I got an error saying that mysql_connect is an
> undefinied function??? This has got me stumped. I checked the php.ini to
> make sure that mysql is turned on (which it is by default now). Nothing I
> can see is telling me other wise.
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in
> /home/aiastudios/htdocs/mysql.test.php on line 13
>
> I have noticed that on the phpinfo();
> That there is no section for Mysql, which I thought was odd.
>
> So it seems to me that mysql is disabled or something but I cannot see how
> to turn it on.
> Any help here would be appreciated.

mysql support is not installed. how did you install?

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