[Resolved] MySQL 4.1.7 - mysqli loading in php 5.0.2

[viveleroi0]

I have PHP 5.0.2, Apache 2, and MySQL 4.1.7 installed on windows XP.

I moved libmysqli to my windows folder, and my system32 folder, I added an extension=php_mysqli to the php.ini, and I have my path to php extensions set to c:\php\exts\ (even with / without the trailing slash it wont work.)

I cannot get mysqli to load. I tried to connect MySQL to phpMyAdmin but it said my authentication protocol was invalid... so I read up on the password hash issue with these version, and was told to use mysqli versus mysql.

Now when I try to run phpmyadmin it says:

cannot load mysql extension,
please check PHP Configuration

There are no startup errors about not being able load the extension.

Any ideas?

UPDATE: When I try a test script with:

function DB_Connect(){
	$DB_login	= mysqli_connect(localhost,"root","xxxx");
	if(!$DB_login){
		print mysql_error();
	}
}

DB_Connect();

It works. If I change the password to an incorrect one... I get an error saying it failed to connect because of an invalid password. So mysqli is loaded properly.

[viveleroi0]

I figured it out. phpMyAdmin had something I was missing:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysqli';

Now it works fine.