PHP/MySQL problems

Hi all, perhaps someone can help me?

I'm running an out-the-box install of Slackware 9, a complete install. I
decided today to upgrade the 3.23 version of MySQL to 4.0 or 4.1 from
slackware-current.

To do this, I used pkgtool to remove the old MySQL.. And installpkg to
install the new one.. I had problems with this (It complained that GLIBC was
missing or something along those lines), so I also installed this.

So, the names of the files I installed from slackware-current are:
glibc-solibs-2.3.2-i486-1.tgz
glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.2-noarch-1.tgz
mysql-4.0.14-i486-1.tgz

Now when I reboot.. I have Apache/PHP running (I can do a "phpinfo();" in
PHP and view it via Apache on a web browser to confirm this), and I have
MySQL running (I can connect fine using "mysql -u root -p" and run queries
fine).

However, PHP and MySQL don't appear to be talking to each other. I can
write PHP code and it'll come out at the other end if you like, but as soon
as I enter a line of PHP that has anything to do with MySQL, I just get
blank pages returned to the browser. I've tried turning on error_reporting,
but still all I get are blank pages.

/var/lib/mysql/<hostname>.err file shows date/time: InnoDB: Started
/usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '4.0.14' socket: '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306

.....which I think is all correct, so I'm sure MySQL is definitely running
okay.

This is the first time I've had a go at installing any software (I'm not
100% sure what I've done above to install it is correct), all I've used is
an out-the-box installation of it, so I'm now a bit stuck with what to do.

Before I tried upgrading, everything was fine, so I'm not sure if I've
overwritten a config file somewhere I shouldn't have or what.

Anyone help with this, or give me a nudge in the right direction?

Cheers,

Steve.

PS. If me including any log files would help, please advise which ones!

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In article <3f612a2a$0$261$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>, It's Me wrote:
> However, PHP and MySQL don't appear to be talking to each other. I can
> write PHP code and it'll come out at the other end if you like, but as soon
> as I enter a line of PHP that has anything to do with MySQL, I just get
> blank pages returned to the browser. I've tried turning on error_reporting,
> but still all I get are blank pages.

What is problaly bitting you in the ass is a new "feature" of the PHP
configuration file.
Nowadays you will have to excplicitly enable mysql support.

In the file /etc/apache/php.ini there is a section like:

; Load the MySQL module by default.
; Comment this out if you don't use MySQL.
extension=mysql.so

(I edited the comment a bit to cope with line breaks)

This entry is problaly commented out or not even there.
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