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From: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.php
Subject: Re: cant use mysql_connect
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:34:00 +0100
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> Markus Grob wrote:
>>> I have changed to Apache 2.4 with PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5. MySQL is running
>>> and all databases were imported from the earlier version.
>>> Apache is running and php_info gives me the hint, that mysqlnd was found:
>>>
>>> PHP Version 5.4.4
>>> System     Windows NT KRWM0023 6.1 build 7601 (Windows 7 Enterprise
>>> Edition Service Pack 1) i586
>>> mysqlnd    enabled
>>>
>>> But if I now try to connect to the database, pypmyadmin tells me, that
>>> mysql can't be found: Cannot load mysql extension.
>>
>> phpmyadmin uses the mysql extension, not the mysqlnd, so you need to find
>> a compiled mysql extension for your version of PHP (usually a lot easier
>> if you use Linux/BSD as your server OS, for then you generally get
>> everything you need at once and less risk for backdoors in modules).
>
> Utter nonsense.  phpMyAdmin is fully capable of using the much safer mysqli
> extension, which is used by the mysqlnd extension:

I stand corrected in this matter (haven't used phpmyadmin for years and back 
then it didn't support mysqli and it was prone to a lot of security issues, 
which it is still), and it's quite unnecessary to make accusations against a 
person, no matter how subtitle it is.

But still, the OP will need to install the mysql extension

 >>> My one site tells me the same:
 >>> Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_error() in...

Even if he gets his phpmyadmin to work, his site will not.
Of course he can rewrite it, but I guess he rather gets it up and running now 
and not next year.

-- 

   //Aho