why php without mysql support?

[Paul Howarth]

Mike Wright wrote:
> Hello list users,
> 
> This question is probably most accurately directed to the developers.
> 
> On a FC4 box I fired up apache and fed it a php script:
> 
>                   <?php phpinfo(); ?>
> 
> which displays, among many other settings, the configure command used 
> for the current build of php.  To my great surprise it was compiled 
> "--without-sqlite" and "--without-mysql".
> 
> Since many of us consider ourselves to be LAMP (linux apache mysql php) 
> developers this requires us to rebuild php right out of the starting block.
> 
> Would someone be so kind as to explain why mysql and sqlite are 
> specifically *excluded* from the included php build?
> 
> Thanks for any insight on this subject,

PHP is built in a modular fashion so that people that don't need mysql 
support etc. don't need to install it. If you do want it, install the 
php-mysql package:

# yum install php-mysql

Paul.