philip Thu Jul 22 18:02:12 2004 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/mysql configure.xml
Log:
Add information for Windows users and PHP 5 in regards to libmysql.dll
#this question comes up a lot and hopefully this will help.
http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/mysql/configure.xml?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&ty=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/mysql/configure.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/mysql/configure.xml:1.8
phpdoc/en/reference/mysql/configure.xml:1.9
--- phpdoc/en/reference/mysql/configure.xml:1.8 Sat Mar 13 10:54:04 2004
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/mysql/configure.xml Thu Jul 22 18:02:11 2004
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.9 $ -->
<section id="mysql.installation">
&reftitle.install;
<para id="mysql.configure">
@@ -24,7 +24,12 @@
<para>
In PHP 5, MySQL is no longer enabled by default, nor is the MySQL library
bundled with PHP. Read this <link linkend="faq.databases.mysql.php5">
- FAQ</link> for details on why.
+ FAQ</link> for details on why. Because of this, Windows users will need
+ to enable <filename>php_mysql.dll</filename> inside of &php.ini; and either
+ copy libmysql.dll into the Windows system directory or make it available to
+ the PATH. For compiling, simply use <option role="configure">
+ --with-mysql=[DIR]</option> where
+ <literal>[DIR]</literal> is defined.
</para>
<para>
This MySQL extension doesn't support full functionality of MySQL versions greater
than
