phpMyAdmin problem

Hello everyone,

I have currently installed apache, mysql, and php on my windows 7 pc. I am now trying to get phpmyadmin installed as well. I had this set up on a previous computer with no problems. PHP and Apache seem to work fine ( I don't know how to test mySQL without phpmyadmin...I know noobish) but I keep getting this error:

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Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. - Documentation

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I have tried looking using a google search and tried the documentation for phpmyadmin and everything but I am still stuck! I would love if anyone out there might be able to help me with this.

Thanks!!

Are you sure the new installation of PHP supports mysql?

You can install it all at once using xampp.

I did continue looking for an answer on google and I am starting to think that php5 does not support mysql for some reason. I have used xampp before but I like setting up the server this way much better.

I will have to see if it is possible to use a not so recent version of php I guess.


Thanks for the reply.

OK I GOT IT!

FOr some reason your post did help me by making me dig more so I found out that mysql is not defaulted in php5 (which I knew because I had to edit php.ini to uncomment it) but I had to actually copy the libmysql.dll file to my windows folder in order for it to work.

Thanks for your help!

that's what I meant, since you're installing everything separately it might not include the mysql library by default.

glad you got it working.

if it's working now, you should edit your first post and change the thread prefix to Resolved.