Apologies to the author of this plug-in – the above report is incorrect. The original request was because apache displayed an error in line 1147 of wp-db.php, advising that mysql_connect() was an undefined function. The inference was that mysql was unsupported and required this mysqli plug-in. The real problem was that if a syntactic error exists in php.ini (unreported in my research), the file reverts to defaults and, as a result, mysqli was never installed. When the php.ini syntax was corrected (discovered by >php –ini at the windows command line), all requested dll’s were loaded. The latest use of mysqlnd in php means that mysql is recognised in addition to mysqli, so for my site, this plug-in seems not to be required.
Once again, apologies to the author and for any inconvenience to other users
