newbie help with pdpMyAdmin

[timski]

hi there peeps :-)

 

i need a bit of help setting up phpmyadmin on windows 2000

 

installed apache 2.2.11 tested that on localhost got the "it works" page

 

installed and configured perl 5.10.0.1004 tested that and got the "hello world" 

 

installed php version 5.2.9-2 created a phpifo.php file and wen to localhost/myinfo.php and i get the php list 

 

installed the MySQl mysql-essential-5.1.33-win32 looks ok when i test it from cmd line ...

 

mysql> status

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C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysql.exe Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.33,

for Win32 (ia32)

 

Connection id: 3

Current database:

Current user: root@localhost

SSL: Not in use

Using delimiter: ;

Server version: 5.1.33-community MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Protocol version: 10

Connection: localhost via TCP/IP

Server characterset: latin1

Db characterset: latin1

Client characterset: latin1

Conn. characterset: latin1

TCP port: 3306

Uptime: 3 hours 12 min 9 sec

 

Threads: 1 Questions: 16 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 15 Flush tables: 1 Open tab

les: 0 Queries per second avg: 0.1

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that looks like its working...

 

downloaded the phpmyadmin 3.1.3.1 english unzipped it to the htdocs folder and renamed it to phpMyAdmin now this is where is all goes wrong 

followed the information about going to localhost/phpMyAdmin/index.php and i get an error mesg 

 

"phpMyAdmin - Error

 

Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. - Documentation"

 

no i didi the normal google searches to get the infomation

and i see lots explaining this to do this

cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; And change the line so that it reads: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie'; 

**** cant see this in my php.ini file anywhere****

 

also this advice to remove the ";" from ;php_mysql.dll but that was not there either and other one "You might want to enable mbstring and curl modules as well by uncommenting the following lines on your php.ini file.

extension=php_mbstring.dll extension=php_curl.dll "

********* i dont have this line*****

another one about moving the libmySQL.dll to system32 folder but i dont have that except in C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin

 

here is come bit from my php.ini file 

 

Paths and Directories ;

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

 

; Windows: "\path1;\path2"

;include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"

 

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.

extension_dir = "C:\php\ext"

 

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Dynamic Extensions ;

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;

; If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following

; syntax:

;

; extension=modulename.extension

;

; For example, on Windows:

;

; extension=msql.dll

;

; ... or under UNIX:

;

; extension=msql.so

;

; Note that it should be the name of the module only; no directory information

; needs to go here. Specify the location of the extension with the

; extension_dir directive above.

 

 

; Windows Extensions

; Note that ODBC support is built in, so no dll is needed for it.

; Note that many DLL files are located in the extensions/ (PHP 4) ext/ (PHP 5)

; extension folders as well as the separate PECL DLL download (PHP 5).

; Be sure to appropriately set the extension_dir directive.

 

 

so its not the advice out there also i have noticed that when i run the myinfo.php file nothing there shows mysql 

 

any help really appriciated pulling me hair out on this one

 

thanks

 

tim 

:-)