[lug] Quick Fix for PHP/MySQL Undefined Function Problem?

[Jeff Schroeder]

Bill wrote:

> However, on that one I can't get the PHP db
> functions to work via the web. I get, for example, "Fatal error: Call
> to undefined function: mysql_pconnect()"

That's an internal PHP function you're trying to call, and apparently 
it's not there on your production server.  Are you sure you have 
identical versions of PHP on both servers?  From your description it 
sounds like the test server's PHP has the MySQL functions in it, and 
the production one doesn't.

(That seems odd, since PHP and MySQL are like hand and glove, and I'd be 
surprised if a packaged PHP doesn't include MySQL support.  But who 
knows.)

A possible solution would be to copy libphp4.so from the test server to 
the production one.  I'm not sure that'll solve it, but I suspect 
that's where the MySQL functionality lives.

HTH,
Jeff