Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL…

Hi,

I am unable to get WordPress installed, I am using the following,
1. Apache 2.2.4
2. Php 5.2.0
3. MySql 5.1.14
When I type in “https://localhost:8080/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, I am getting the following message,
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL which is required for WordPress.”

I was able to find few questions raised on the same message. The following are my findings,
1. PHP5+ versions does not have built in support for MySQL.

The following are few troubleshooting steps I was able to get from web as well worpress forum,
1. Modify the php.ini file to allow following extensions,
extension=php_mssql.dll
extension=php_msql.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
2. Added the following PHP installation directory in Windows(XP) path. Still the problem persists.
D:\Php5.2.0;
3. Copied the libmysql.dll in Windows directory.

I am still facing the same issue. I have spent almost one full day in researching for this stuff. I know by using PHP4 I can easily solve the issue, but I really want to know where I am going wrong. It would be great if some of you could help me with this.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
JGk