so, I did that. I enabled mysqli. still nothing. The IDE still works, and web browsers via localhost do not.
When I run the IDE also, I am able to execute this code:
dl('php_mysql.dll');
but I cannot do that from the web browser.
Does this have to do with some sort of configuration?
Also, I did some error checking. The browsers will crash after
mysql_pconnect(..., ..., ...);
(but of course not the IDE.)
<starting to cry>... j/k.