Hi All Well I had a look at all my installed modules. I have all the pear packages installed on the distribution DVD of 10.3 that I got with the book opensuse unleashed. However I did discover that the DB.php package has been deprecated and replaced by the MDB2 interface. The theory at the moment is that the DB.php is not included anymore though you can download it and use it. I will modify the code snippets tonight and change it to use the MDB2 interface and well maybe I am on the right track here. Regards Neil PS thanks to MS VISTA I am now using Linux. ________________________________________ From: member fxrsliberty [mailto:fxrsliberty@opensuse.us] Sent: 08 May 2008 05:02 PM To: Cornelius Franken Cc: opensuse Linux Subject: Re: [opensuse] LAMP Setup Issue. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:56 AM, member fxrsliberty <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us> wrote: Did you insure that you have "PEAR_Mod" (not sure of exact name) installed? as far as I know these PHP support modules for Apache are all separate RPM's. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Cornelius Franken <Cornelius.Franken@engenoil.com> wrote: Hi Guys Last night while playing my pet project which uses the Lamp setup I was ran into a problem. I was working through some examples from the MySQL cookbook (O'Reilly publication) on how to connect to MySQL from a php page. The book is using the PEAR package and when I tried the example I got a error that it could not find the DB.php file. Basically the book uses the msqli methods instead of the mysql methods. However when the PHP interpreter hits the line require_once "DB.php" it states it cannot find this file. I did a find and locate and could not find this file on my box. So anyway I tried a example from the book Setting UP LAMP. Using the mysql methods such as mysql_connect I could access the database and display my results on the page. Now I would really like to use the mysqli methods as I am planning to try all sorts of experiments with the LAMP setup. From what I understand the mysqli interfaces is much better to use if you are going for advanced SQL type of functionality. Anyway my main problem is how can I get this PEAR extension to work. I looked at Yast and search for the PEAR package I have all the pear packages installed but they don't seem to be the DB packages. Can someone shed some light? Regards Neil ----------------------------------------- Engen Petroleum Limited, disclaims liability for any loss, damage or expense however caused, arising from the sending, receipt, or use of this e-mail and on any reliance placed upon the information provided through this service and does not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information. Please visit http://www.engen.co.za/home/server/common/disclaimer.asp to view the full disclaimer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org