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

[Hugh Brown]

Bill Thoen wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Calling phpinfo(), the PHP versions are the same. However, I forgot to 
> mention that I built PHP and MySQL from source, and I may have doen 
> something different in the switches. I remember I had a lot of trouble 
> getting compatible versions of Apache and PHP between the machines because 
> of all the differences with Apache 2.0.
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I have that one on both machines in /usr/lib/httpd/modules/.
> 
> - Bill
> 
>


On a stock redhat 9 install, there's a package called php-mysql which 
has the files /etc/php.d/mysql.ini and /usr/lib/php4/mysql.so

So I'd check to see if you've got those files on one machine but not the 
other.

HTH,
Hugh

Hugh