title: PHP not recognizing MySQL installation
body: <p>Fellas,</p>
  
  <p>I have wasted about 4 hours of my life on this and now I am coming to you. I realize this has been asked before, but I have extensively read similar questions and still cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I installed PHP 5.2.17 and Apache 2.2 using this source: <a href="http://www.thesitewizard.com/php/install-mysql-windows-vista.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesitewizard.com/php/install-mysql-windows-vista.shtml</a></p>
  
  <p>The installations worked just great and I have been using them to work on my computer. I recently decided I wanted to try to add MySQL as well. I used the same source (which is the link above) to install MySQL. I installed the latest version of MySQL (5.5) and everything seems to have gone smoothly in regards to installing it on my computer.</p>
  
  <p>In my PHP.ini file, the following are set and not commented out:</p>
  
  <pre><code>extension_dir = "c:\php\ext"
  extension=php_mysql.dll
  extension=php_mysqli.dll
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The PHP folder is in the correct place, and I have looked and seen that the .dll files do exist in the "ext" directory. I have both restarted both Apache and my computer since making all of the above changes.</p>
  
  <p>phpMyAdmin gives me this error: "The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration." and the function phpinfo(), when called in a test.php page, is not recognizing the MySQL extensions (to verify it is working with PHP) as my source tutorial site said it would.</p>
  
  <p>In addition, I added this ";c:\php" to my system variables under Path as instructed by my tutorial site. Again, I restarted the computer after all of this was done. Have restarted Apache many times. MySQL is allowed in the correct port. Any thoughts?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your time, I highly appreciate it.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: just in case it makes any difference, I installed in MySQL without a password because it was saying my root password was wrong or something, so I uninstalled it and then reinstalled it without the password and the installation went all the waythrough.</p>