Cannot get PHP and MySQL working

[Kevin Chilton]

Ok I obviously need a magician and not a scientist here.

I have installed Apache 2.0.50, PHP 5.1.2 (which work fine together) and MySQL 4.1.8. However no matter what I do I can not get PHP to recognise MySQL.

I have scoured the PHP and MYSQL forums and followed all the advice:

1. I have downloaded the latest MySQL Connector/PHP for MySQL 4.1.18
and followed the instructions, placing the php_*.dll files into my PHP extension directory (C:\PHP\extensions) and the libmysql.dll to my PHP directory.

2. I have activated the extension=php_mysql.dll and the extension=php_mysqli.dll, and configured the extensions directory path (C:\PHP\extensions) in php.ini.

3. I have placed the C:\PHP and C:\PHP\etension paths in the path variable and re-booted.

4. I have even tried copying php.ini into the Windows directory and libmysql.dll to WINDOWS\System32.

All to no avail.

If anyone has a clue about what's going on I would be eternally grateful.