MySQL functions in PHP

[tacres]

Hi

I am in the process of installing vBulletin 3.7.3 onto our internal webserver.

I have installed PHP (ver 5) and mySQL, but I get the following error message when I try to start the vBulletin installation.

vBulletin 3.7.3 requires that the MySQL functions in PHP be available. Please ask your host to enable this.

I'm sure this is a very simple fix, just wish I knew what it was.

Thanks in advance.

[DelphiVillage]

Hi

I am in the process of installing vBulletin 3.7.3 onto our internal webserver.

I have installed PHP (ver 5) and mySQL, but I get the following error message when I try to start the vBulletin installation.

vBulletin 3.7.3 requires that the MySQL functions in PHP be available. Please ask your host to enable this.

I'm sure this is a very simple fix, just wish I knew what it was.

Thanks in advance.

run this



phpinfo();


if this output does not show a MySQL section then your PHP build needs to be recompiled with the "--with-mysql" parameter

[tacres]

Thanks for the quick response.

I don't have any experience of PHP, so can you tell me where I need to run the command.

Thanks

[steve77uk]

I am having exactly the same issues, I am a novice at vBulletin, PHP and MySQL, so if you could provide step by step, I would also be grateful!

Thanks

Steve

[DelphiVillage]

hi,

The proces of compiling PHP is not easly explained and it is also different (depending on what os your server is running)You will also need root acces to the server to compile PHP yourself.If you have something like cPanel they have scripts which does it automatically (on cPanel for example check)



cd /scripts
./easyapache


besides that the only thing i can recommend is http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php

[steve77uk]

Perhaps I should mention I am using Windows Server II6, MySql (latest downloadable version as of today) and vBulletin 3.7 ;)

But will have a look to see if there is a windows guide on there too...

[tacres]

I'm using Windows 2003 with IIS.
Is there software I need to download to configure PHP for Windows?

[poolking]

Are you guys on your own dedicated servers or on shared hosting?

[DelphiVillage]

Perhaps I should mention I am using Windows Server II6, MySql (latest downloadable version as of today) and vBulletin 3.7 ;)

But will have a look to see if there is a windows guide on there too...

http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=4

you need to set extension_dir and uncomment the corrosponding dll to enable MySQL (in the file php.ini)

[Wayne Luke]

http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=4

you need to set extension_dir and uncomment the corrosponding dll to enable MySQL (in the file php.ini)
You will also need to download the PHP ZIP File distribution to get the MySQL libraries and extension DLLs needed. They aren't included with the Installation package.