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Subject: Re: PHP Extension - newbie question
From: gmclachl@cis.strath.ac.uk (George McLachlan)

Sara Golemon wrote:
>> I ran a simple
>>   ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
>>   --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-zlib --with-gd
>>
> This'll build 'em staticly into a new mod_php5.so, but you want just the
> extension so you can plug it into your existing webserver build.
> 
> First, forget about the chroot environment, you don't need it in order to
> build a loadable extension.  Second, I'm assuming that when you installed
> PHP originally, you did so from source and that you've still got that source
> tree around somewhere.  Correct me on what ever points I got wrong...
> 
> cd /path/to/php_source/ext/mysqli
> phpize
> ./configure --with-mysqli=shared,/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
> make
> cp modules/mysqli.so /path/to/extension_dir/
> 
> 
> Edit php.ini:
> Make sure your extension_dir setting exists and points to the same spot you
> put your new module.
> Add: extension=mysqli.so
> 
> 
> Restart apache
> Profit!
> 
> -Sara
> 
  Thanks Sara,

  Oh dear,  don't think I should admit this, but in a blinding moment of 
stupidity I downloaded the source and cd'd to the directory where php 
was already intalled not the source. Hence I couldn't find the the 
mysqli dir in ext/ and made the wrong assumption that it would magically 
appear if I compiled it.To make matters worse I then cd'd to the source 
without noticing my mistake.

Ah well you learn by your mistakes. At least I got to build PHP from 
source (several times) and with chroot I can grab the latest snapshots 
from CVS and build them without it affecting the version I have 
installed. So it wasn't a complete waste of time

Thanks Again
George