MDB2.php not found error

[mikeswire]

PHP and PEAR and MySQL Setup on Apache MDB2.php

note: error info after trying to connect includes 'MDB2.php' (include_path=' .;C:\php5\pear' )

I noticed some potential solutions on this in a closed post. After installing pear and installing mdb2 using the pear install. You have to install the driver for the db you will be accessing:

at a command prompt from tht php directory run this.
pear install MDB2_driver_mys qli

Note: the code below fails with the cannot find mdb2.php error (before the install above and works after). I found some info on this site as a solution to this error involving moving an ini file around, none of them worked for me but the install above did. I think it is an incomplete install bug not an ini bug.

FYI Good luck Mike A

<?php
require_once 'MDB2.php';
$mdb2 = MDB2::connect('mysqli://root:mysql@localhost/test');
if (PEAR::isError($mdb2)) {
    die($mdb2->getMessage()  .' , '. $mdb2->getDebugInfo());
	}
	else
	 print 'connection succeeded';

?>

[philipwayne]

Umm unless the file is in the correct directory then I doubt it will find a imaginary file. I think you've confused PHP's require with something like pyhon's/java's import. If you installed it, it is loaded through a DLL not a file( well it is a file but its a special file to the Windows operating systems ). The load happens automatically when apache starts.