PHP MySql Problem

[Soulwatcher]

Originally Posted by chiefsmurph

Ran them both and no luck. Still getting error here.

MySQL-devel gave me:

No Match for argument: MySQL-devel
Nothing to do

Php-devel did a lot. Looked like this:

Transaction Summary
======================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 3 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Try "yum install php4-mysql" and let me know if that works? Dont worry we will get you up and running. Also check and make sure php_mysql.dll is enabled in the php.ini.

[chiefsmurph]

yum install php4-mysql said nothing to do, but I looked in my php.ini file and theres no php_mysql.dll.

I searched for mysql and found: extension_dir = /var/lib/mysql/ is that right?

Also, extension wasn't set. I thought it had something to do with extensions but I may be way off.

[Soulwatcher]

The only other thing I can think of is you need to rebuild PHP for MySQL. What OS are you running and what version of PHP do you have?

If your running PHP 4 you can follow this guide to rebuild your PHP for MySQL.
http://www.eth0.us/sourcephp

[chiefsmurph]

Centos Php 4. Thanks for the help. I'll try to recompile php later today.

[chiefsmurph]

I read the page on recompiling php and I got to the part where I was running "up2date libpng-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel freetype libjpeg libpng." I ran it and it gave me

Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
There was an error downloading: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os...L4_U2.i386.hdr
There was an error downloading: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os...2.1-1.i386.hdr

...continually

[Soulwatcher]

Originally Posted by chiefsmurph

I read the page on recompiling php and I got to the part where I was running "up2date libpng-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel freetype libjpeg libpng." I ran it and it gave me

Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
There was an error downloading: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os...L4_U2.i386.hdr
There was an error downloading: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os...2.1-1.i386.hdr

...continually

Try "yum install libpng-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel freetype libjpeg libpng" That should do the trick.

[chiefsmurph]

slowly getting through this. seems like yum install has been the answer to all dependancy errors.

started configuring it, and got the error:

checking for flex... lex
checking for yywrap in -ll... no
checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2426: lex: command not found
configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up

thanks for all the help. Does that mean I have to install lex?