On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:32:27PM -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > asolomon15 wrote: > > >Hello everyone... I have a problem getting support for mysql within > >php. I am running freebsd 5.2.1 and php 4.3.8. When I tried to run > >a php script that uses a mysql db connection, I got this error > > *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in > > > >I did a phpinfo() and noticed i didn't see any mysql or postgresql > >support in it. I then tried to install php4-mysql module from the > >freebsd ports and still no luck. I also tried reinstalling both and > >I still end up in the same situation. I did a google search for how > >to load a mysql module but I keep getting articles about how to load > >it with apache. What should I do? > > > Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING if it is available on your system. If not, > you may access it via the cvsweb at the Project web site. You will need to > install /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions to, um, get the extensions ;-)
php4-extensions isn't *required* to install extension modules. It's
just a handy way for people to manually select what they want out of
all of the available extensions. Each extension nowadays is a
stand-alone port, like any other port. PHP applications that require
a certain extension in order to work simply have to register a
run-time dependency on each of the extension modules they need. Mosr
of the PHP applications in the ports tree have already been modified
to do that.
Cheers,
Matthew
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