I've seen a lot of people who can't get PHP5 and MySQL5 to talk to each other, and I haven't seen anyone transcend it. Maybe there's an error in the wizard or something. I'm WIMP based; my PHP files load fine, and I can get around MySQL fine; the MySQL extensions are set up in exactly the same way as the other extensions which have loaded correctly. But when you go to http://www.colinjensen.com/phpinfo.php there is no mention of MySQL (except in the windows path.) Any suggestions on where I go from here to diagnose things? I have other extensions enabled in the same way, so I'm enabling them correctly. MySQL is just not being recognized. I have PHP.ini in e:\php, php.ini looking in e:\php\ext for extensions, have libmysql.dll in e:\php and php_mysql.dll and php_mysqli.dll in e:\php\ext; and the latter two uncommented in the php.ini. I've tried both the limysql and php_mysql and php_mysqli which come from mysql.com and those that come from php.net. Any suggestions from you php pros (or you amateurs who got it working)?