Good day,

My current setup:
CentOS 5.2
PHP 5.2.9
Apache/2.2.11

Im trying to connect to a remote MySQL database but getting:
Call to undefined function: mysql_connect(). Please install the MySQL Connector for PHP

I purposely configured PHP without MySQL, as I will not be hosting any local databases.

The more and more I read, it seems I will be forced to install MySQL in order to configure PHP --with-mysql? or to simply connect to a remote db?

Any suggestions would be great!

A little more info for anyone who can help:

This is my ./configure:

'./configure' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/php'

I attempted:

[root@custom php-5.2.9]# ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/php --with-mysql

Result:

configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under yes.
Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore!

So im not sure if a MySQL installation is needed for MySQL header files?

solution to this:

you can just compile mysql using --without-server