Installing PHP on Windows
By Michael J. Ross2008-03-05
This final section of the tutorial is for those readers who have installed the MySQL database server. For detailed instructions on how to add MySQL to your development environment, please see my tutorial titled "Installing MySQL on Windows".
In order for MySQL to be able to communicate with PHP, you need to add some dynamic link library (DLL) files to your Apache setup. First verify that the extensions directory for PHP — in this tutorial, "C:\_a\PHP\ext" — contains the two needed DLL files: php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll. Then confirm that the following lines have been added to your PHP configuration file, C:\_a\PHP\php.ini (probably at the very bottom), by the PHP Setup Wizard:
extension=php_mysql.dll extension=php_mysqli.dll
Next, copy the DLL file libmySQL.dll from C:\_a\MySQL\bin to C:\WINDOWS\system32. Restart your Apache service.
To verify that everything works, in your Web browser go to http://localhost/phpinfo.php, which should now contain two new sections, labeled "mysql" and "mysqli". With the heading "MySQL".
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