On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 20:19 +0000, David Noble wrote:

Do any of you have much experience in editing the php.ini file? I compiled php without the mysql option, and although the phpinfo function and other basic functions work, for some reason I can't connect to mysql from php.

I am able to connect to mysql directly; and it appears to function normally otherwise.

I have the following lines in mine (remember that there are separate php.ini files for CLI and Apache with php4)

******BEGIN************

[MySQL] ; Allow or prevent persistent links. mysql.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links. -1 means no limit. mysql.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent + non-persistent). -1 means no limit. mysql.max_links = -1

; Default port number for mysql_connect(). If unset, mysql_connect() will use ; the $MYSQL_TCP_PORT or the mysql-tcp entry in /etc/services or the ; compile-time value defined MYSQL_PORT (in that order). Win32 will only look ; at MYSQL_PORT. mysql.default_port =

; Default socket name for local MySQL connects. If empty, uses the built-in ; MySQL defaults. mysql.default_socket = ; Default host for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode). mysql.default_host =

; Default user for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode). mysql.default_user =

; Default password for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode). ; Note that this is generally a *bad* idea to store passwords in this file. ; *Any* user with PHP access can run 'echo get_cfg_var("mysql.default_password"); and reveal this password! And of course, any users with read access to this ; file will be able to reveal the password as well. mysql.default_password =

; Maximum time (in seconds) for connect timeout. -1 means no limit mysql.connect_timeout = 60

; Trace mode. When trace_mode is active (=On), warnings for table/index scans and ; SQL-Errors will be displayed. mysql.trace_mode = Off

*******END**********

Also you need

extension=mysql.so

and the mysql.so lib in the php4 modules dir (varies but should be somewhere under /usr/lib/php4)