Re: Is my MySQL Gaining ?

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:21:27PM -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
> Ericson Smith wrote:
>
> > They might be more inclined to, since they are dropping MySQL from
> > inclusion in PHP.
>
> > From what I can tell they are not supplying the client libraries
> > anymore. You have to have the libraries installed before you can build
> > support for MySQL. They are not getting rid of support for MySQL, you
> > will just need to supply your own libraries, which is what you have to
> > do to get PostgreSQL support as well.
>
> Hmm... I havn't heard anything about this.

http://www.php.net/mysql

"In PHP 5, MySQL is no longer enabled by default, nor is the MySQL
library bundled with PHP. Read this FAQ for details on why."

Here's the FAQ in question:

http://www.php.net/faq.databases#faq.databases.mysql.php5

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