Installing PDO_MYSQL on PHP 5.1.6 using PECL OS: Ubuntu

pecl, php, ubuntu, zend-framework

Solution

If you're on ubuntu, try apt-get :

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

which should make

/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/pdo.so

and PDO will be available after an apache restart

Problem

I'm having real problems getting PDO_MYSQL working. I started by just trying to install the PDO_MYSQL driver via PECL, however when this didn't work I looked round to see if there where any issues reported. It seems that there may be a conflict between the embedded version of PDO and PDO_MYSQL. To that end i decided to reinstall all it's dependencies from PECL. Environment: OS: Ubuntu PHP Ver: 5.1.6 (Unable to upgrade due to clients live environment) Procedure Followed: ``` PECL uninstall PDO_MYSQL PECL uninstall PDO PECL uninstall mysql PECL install mysql PECL install PDO PECL install PDO_MYSQL Lines Added to PHP.ini extension=mysql.so extension=pdo.so extension=pdo_mysql.so apachectl restart [warn] php5_module is already loaded, skipping ``` I then check PHPINFO to see which modules are installed. I see: ``` PDO drivers sqlite2 ``` That's it! If any one could suggest any solutions to this I'd be deeply grateful. I need MYSQL PDO driver to run zend framework for an upcoming project... and yes I have to use v1.6 due to the PHP version.

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