Installation Issues:

[MinusMyThoughts]

Hey, everyone!I wasn't entirely sure where this sort of question belonged, but my best guess was in here.I have just installed PHP 5, Apache 2.0, and MySQL 5 on my computer (Windows XP) for local testing. All the installations went according to plan and tested out fine. I followed the steps given HERE to install all three. My problem is this: I cannot, for whatever reason, get PHP to hook into MySQL. Everything looks the way the tutorial said it should, and I can use MySQL through the command line successfully, but I get the "Call to undefined function..." error when I call something like "mysql_query()" in a PHP file.Has anyone had this problem? Is there a better tutorial that I didn't see? Should I set my computer on fire?Thanks!-Jason

[MrAdam]

haha. i had very similar problems installing them ! My friend reccomended i uninstalled them and used xampp. It installs everything in one and has it's own control panel. Far better I thought!Also i've found that it doesn't slow my computer down at all - and im using a pretty.. poo.. computer.Good luck !

[aspnetguy]

did you uncomment the call tot eh mysql library in php.ini? You have to restart apache after you do also. You also have to set the extention_dir to point to the php libraries (usually C:\PHP\ext on windows)

[MinusMyThoughts]

aspnetguy-Here is my configuration:php.ini

Lines 521 & 522; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.extension_dir = C:\dev\server\PHP\ext\Lines 652, 653, & 654;extension=php_msql.dllextension=php_mysql.dll;extension=php_oci8.dll

Also, I'm having a really weird issue with the php.ini path in the phpinfo(). It says C:\WINDOWS, but there is not a php.ini file there. So I copied one there and added the line PHPIniDir C:\dev\server\PHPin an attempt to correct the issue. Still C:\WINDOWS.I don't really know what's going on. I looked through the php.net manual and any other installation guide I could find online - no dice. At this point I think I'd just be happy to know how PHP is finding a ghost file in C:\WINDOWS.Thanks for the help!-Jason

[MinusMyThoughts]

After what feels like years and what measures out to be about 14 wasted hours, I found the problem with my installation:In Apache's httpd.conf file, these lines:

LoadModule php5_module C:/dev/server/PHP/php5apache2.dllAddHandler application/x-httpd-php .phpPHPIniDir "C:/your/path/to/PHP"

Need to look like THIS:

LoadModule php5_module C:/dev/server/PHP/php5apache2.dllAddHandler application/x-httpd-php .phpPHPIniDir C:\your\path\to\PHP\php.ini

I looked at every tutorial I could find, and nearly every one of them was stalled out with somebody saying, "That didn't work. Does anyone have any other ideas?"Hopefully this will save someone else some heartache.-Jason

[justsomeguy]

About the phpinfo path to php.ini, if it cannot find php.ini it will list where it is looking (C:\Windows). If you see the filename in that path (e.g. C:\Windows\php.ini) then it was able to find it. If it doesn't list the filename, then it didn't find it.

[kvnmck18]

Whoa, Xampp seems sweet. I've never heard of it. w3schools should add it to the site.