phpMyAdmin - install driving me mad!
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:19 am
Hi there - I'm trying to test out my site locally after experiencing serious speed problems on plus.net to determine if it's my script or their server. I've installed php, apache, mysql and mysql admin and I am desperately trying to install phpmyadmin without much success. It is the age old Cannot find mysql.dll problem that has been a common theme on many topics, but after following lots of instructions of sorting the problem, I still cannot get it to work. I am thoroughly disheartened as I thought mysql/php etc was a great alternate to micro$oft software but installing it seems to require a PHD. Why cant the developers who created this great language and db have developed an easier way of installing the whole thing?? Copying .dlls into my system32 folder? Madness! You can cause all sorts of fun in that dir!
I have run phpinfo and have a large readout of information about my setup if anyone wants to see.
I have reset the login instructions on my php file from the online db to my local db (I exported the db from the online mysql and imported here as a restore successfully.) and the file executes in apache/php, but when it hits the db code, it falls over with errors such as Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in... and Notice: Undefined variable: .... (This file does work online.). Therefore I assume that PHP isn't/cannot talk to mySQL on my machine.
Please help!
frank
I have run phpinfo and have a large readout of information about my setup if anyone wants to see.
I have reset the login instructions on my php file from the online db to my local db (I exported the db from the online mysql and imported here as a restore successfully.) and the file executes in apache/php, but when it hits the db code, it falls over with errors such as Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in... and Notice: Undefined variable: .... (This file does work online.). Therefore I assume that PHP isn't/cannot talk to mySQL on my machine.
Please help!
frank