dreamweaver, mysql, php setup and connection

[tacroy]

Hello, I had my dreamweaver / php / mysql working fine on a previous computer a
year or so ago and now am having problems getting it to work. I have installed
php, installed mysql and installed dreamweaver. I can view php pages, mysql
admin lets me add tables and what not and dreamweaver works fine.
When i create a site and a php file and attempt to create a database
connection i get a "unidentified error has occured" and can not connect.

i dont remember doing anything special last time, but it has been a while. i
was lookng around the forums and read that i should have the ";" taken off the
"extension=php_mysql.dll" line in C:\PHP\BACKUP. But that doesnt appear to do
anything as i still have the same problem.

If i run
<?php
echo phpinfo();
?>

I do not see a MYSQL section so it is not installed right or did i miss
another random switch?
DreamweaverMX, mysql4.1 , php 5.0.4 windows xp.

Thank you for your help.

[David Powers]

tacroy wrote:

> I do not see a MYSQL section so it is not installed right or did i miss
> another random switch?
> DreamweaverMX, mysql4.1 , php 5.0.4 windows xp.

It depends how you installed PHP. If you did it the old way, you need to
copy libmysql.dll from the main PHP folder to windows\system32. Detailed
instructions on how to do things the new way (since the release of PHP
5) are here:

[url]http://computerbookshelf.com/phpdw/install1.php[/url]

The old way still works; it's just less easy to update and maintain in
the future.

--
David Powers
Author, "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash" (friends of ED)
Co-author "PHP Web Development with DW MX 2004" (Apress)
[url]http://computerbookshelf.com[/url]