[Mediawiki-l] MySql Driver

[Rob Church]

Hi. You need to download the "full PHP" binaries - it comes as a ZIP
file, then edit the PHP.ini file to add the PHP extension - look for a
line like

;extension php_mysql.dll

and remove the leading semicolon


Rob Church

On 28/10/05, Michael Jew <MichaelJ at bargain.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
>   Perhaps you can assist me, I'm trying to do a test installation of
> MediaWiki on my desktop.  I installed MediaWiki, then I installed
> SQLServer, then I installed PHP5 all on my local machine.
>
>   However, I received the following error message, when navigating to
> the site and running the setup script:
>
>
>
> Checking environment...
>
>
>
> Warning: dl() [function.dl]: Unable to load dynamic library './mysql.so'
> - The specified module could not be found. in
> C:\wwwTest\mediawiki-1.5.1\install-utils.inc on line 17
>
> Could not load MySQL driver! Please compile php --with-mysql or install
> the mysql.so module.
>
>
>
>
>
> I already saw you post here:
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-May/005285.html,
> but wasn't enough information to help solve my problem.  I'm using
> Windows 2000.  When I installed PHP 5.0.5, I downloaded the "PHP 5.0.5
> installer" and ran that executable.  Thus I did no compiling.  Should I
> be?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Michael Jew
>
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>
> (805) 968-2020 x2156
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>
>
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