Hi all - here's the story... I installed MySQL 5 on my Windows XP computer and everything seems to work splendidly. I then installed Apache, and that worked wonderfully also. I added PHP5, and tested it with a simple "echo" statement and it worked marvelously. In a rapture, I tried to connect to a MySQL database using mysql_connect and I got an error message that in effect said Apache didn't know what the heck the function was. I remembered that PHP5 doesn't automatically include MySQL support, so I went to the PHP webpage and did the two things they stated I needed to do (put the php.ini file in the c:\windows directory, which it already was, and add it to the PATH environmental variable). I also "uncommented" the extension php_mysql.dll in the php.ini file. But it still doesn't work! I'm at my wit's end. What am I doing wrong? One book says that I should put the libmysql.dll in the c:\windows directory, but I'm wondering if it should be in the extensions folder (c:\php\ext). Is this correct? Can someone give me some advice (besides "Use ODBC instead")?

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