phpMyAdmin installation error

[FirEwAteR]

I'm getting this error when trying to install phpMyAdmin on my local machine.

cannot load mysql extension;
please check PHP configuration
Documentation

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[drew010]

most likely php inst configured with mysql support...
see http://www.php.net/mysql
follow the directions for both your php version and os, then it should work

[rhock]

you need to edit the php.ini file ...uncomment the lines "extension=mysql.so" and "extension=gd.so"

also you may need to edit the line that says "extension_dir=..."

I am running Linux and I had to change the path to:

extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php4/20020429/"

from: extension_dir = "./"

[drew010]

yeah on windows it will be php_*.dll instead of the so files.