brianly

I found the problem. The extension directory was not defined.

See https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php/

If I run phpinfo(INFO_MODULES); in a new PHP file, the only references to mysql are under Apache Environment (PATH). The list of modules jumps from libxml to odbc.

I would hazard a guess that mysql support is not loaded – my understanding was that it’s built-in?