I have programmed extensively with Php in the past, but I haven't used it in a year or so.
I just installed PHP 4.1 from my SuSE 8.0 diskset. Apache hits my local development site and I can run PHP from within my index.php.
I have a previous installation of MySQL that is correctly configured and works fine (I hit it from Java all the time).
I'm a little confuded by the documentation, which says:
"By using the --with-mysql[=DIR] configuration option you enable PHP to access MySQL databases. If you use this option without specifying the path to MySQL, PHP will use the built-in MySQL client libraries. With PHP 4 MySQL support is always enabled; if you don't specify the configure option, the bundled libraries are used"
Does this mean that I should be able to hit MySQL from PHP out of the box (I'm running PHP 4.1)? How do I configure that path to MySQL? Do I still need to recompile?
Thanks heaps!
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Steve
