PHP Functions Essential Reference

Installing MySQL Support

To use PHP’s built-in client libraries for MySQL support, use the --with-mysql configure option.

To use the MySQL libraries (instead of the libraries included with PHP), set the --with-mysql= /path/to/mysql/libraries configure option.

Windows users:The Win32 binaries of PHP have MySQL support built in. No external extensions are needed.

Warning:

Users building PHP as an Apache module should avoid using PHP’s built-in MySQL client libraries.

If any other Apache modules use the MySQL client libraries (such as auth-mysql or modperl), there will be a conflict between the MySQL libraries provided with PHP and the MySQL libraries used by the other modules. To avoid the conflict, configure PHP using the --with-mysql= /path/to/mysql/libraries ...