Installation
Installation
Installation
The mysqli extension was introduced with
PHP version 5.0.0. The MySQL Native Driver was included in PHP
version 5.3.0.
Installation on Linux
The common Unix distributions include binary
versions of PHP that can be installed. Although these binary
versions are typically built with support for the MySQL extensions,
the extension libraries themselves may need to be installed using
an additional package. Check the package manager that comes with
your chosen distribution for availability.
For example, on Ubuntu the php5-mysql
package installs the ext/mysql, ext/mysqli, and pdo_mysql PHP
extensions. On CentOS, the php-mysql package also installs
these three PHP extensions.
Alternatively, you can compile this extension
yourself. Building PHP from source allows you to specify the MySQL
extensions you want to use, as well as your choice of client
library for each extension.
The MySQL Native Driver is the recommended client
library option, as it results in improved performance and gives
access to features not available when using the MySQL Client
Library. Refer to What is
PHP’s MySQL Native Driver? for a brief overview of the
advantages of MySQL Native Driver.
The /path/to/mysql_config represents the
location of the mysql_config program that comes with MySQL
Server.
| PHP Version | Default | Configure Options: mysqlnd | Configure Options: libmysqlclient | Changelog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4.x and above | mysqlnd | –with-mysqli | –with-mysqli=/path/to/mysql_config | mysqlnd is the default |
| 5.3.x | libmysqlclient | –with-mysqli=mysqlnd | –with-mysqli=/path/to/mysql_config | mysqlnd is supported |
| 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.2.x | libmysqlclient | Not Available | –with-mysqli=/path/to/mysql_config | mysqlnd is not supported |
Note that it is possible to freely mix MySQL
extensions and client libraries. For example, it is possible to
enable the MySQL extension to use the MySQL Client Library
(libmysqlclient), while configuring the mysqli extension
to use the MySQL Native Driver. However, all permutations of
extension and client library are possible.
Installation on Windows Systems
On Windows, PHP is most commonly installed using
the binary installer.
PHP 5.3.0 and newer
On Windows, for PHP versions 5.3 and newer, the
mysqli extension is enabled and uses the MySQL Native
Driver by default. This means you don’t need to worry about
configuring access to libmysql.dll.
PHP 5.0, 5.1, 5.2
On these old unsupported PHP versions (PHP 5.2
reached EOL on ‘6 Jan 2011’), additional configuration procedures
are required to enable mysqli and specify the client
library you want it to use.
The mysqli extension is not enabled by
default, so the php_mysqli.dll DLL must
be enabled inside of php.ini. In order
to do this you need to find the php.ini
file (typically located in c:\php), and
make sure you remove the comment (semi-colon) from the start of the
line extension=php_mysqli.dll, in the section marked
[PHP_MYSQLI].
Also, if you want to use the MySQL Client Library
with mysqli, you need to make sure PHP can access the
client library file. The MySQL Client Library is included as a file
named libmysql.dll in the Windows PHP
distribution. This file needs to be available in the Windows
system’s PATH environment variable, so
that it can be successfully loaded. See the FAQ titled “How
do I add my PHP directory to the PATH on Windows” for
information on how to do this. Copying libmysql.dll to the Windows system directory
(typically c:\Windows\system) also
works, as the system directory is by default in the system’s
PATH. However, this practice is strongly
discouraged.
As with enabling any PHP extension (such as
php_mysqli.dll), the PHP directive
extension_dir should be set to the directory where the
PHP extensions are located. See also the Manual Windows
Installation Instructions. An example extension_dir
value for PHP 5 is c:\php\ext.
Note:
If when starting the web server an error similar to
the following occurs: “Unable to load dynamic library
‘./php_mysqli.dll'”, this is because php_mysqli.dll and/or libmysql.dll cannot be found by the system.