Question

(Running ubuntu server 12.04)

This line in particular is giving me issues in php:

$con = mysql_connect("localhost:3306","root","root");

From turning on error reporting, I only got this returned (as it was killed at that line and nothing afterwards would print):

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/sql/login.php on line 7

I’m not sure where to go from there, as it is just killed at the line I provided. I have used just “localhost” as well, and I have successfully logged in from the command line. Could this be a php permissions issue, or something like configuration? If so, where would that be?

Answer 1

I think this happen because you don’t have the mysql extension loaded on your php environment.

To fix this, in your ubuntu open the shell and type this:

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql libapache2-mod-auth-mysql

After that, just restart apache with the next command:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Good luck!