XL. MySQL functions
These functions allow you to access MySQL database servers. In
order to have these functions available, you must compile php
with mysql support by using the
--with-mysql option. If you
use this option without specifying the path to mysql, php will
use the built-in mysql client libraries. Users who run other
applications that use mysql (for example, running php3 and php4
as concurrent apache modules, or auth-mysql) should always
specify the path to mysql:
--with-mysql=/path/to/mysql.
This will force php to use the client libraries installed by
mysql, avoiding any conflicts.
More information about MySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.com/.