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I have installed XAMPP under Windows XP/SP2. There is a desktop icon for XAMPP Control Panel which leads to a page that indicates that both Apache and MySQL are running as services. Status is OK.

When I attempt to display localhost/xampp in a browser, I get the following display:

MySQL - Deactivated
PHP - Activated
HTTPS - Activated
CGI - Deactivated
SSI - Activated
SMTP - Deactivated
FTP Deactivated

When I click on PHPMyAdmin I get the "Cannot load mysql extension. Please check PHP configuration"

There is nothing in phpinfo() for 'mysql'.

When I attempted to load Seagull as my MVC framework, it couldn't get by the MySQL credentials part of the installation, suggesting that it couldn't find MySQL. I am also having some problems with my Zend installation, but these could be independent.

I don't recall getting error messages during the XAMPP install.

What do I need to do to get MySQL and PHPMyAdmin installed correctly?

have installed XAMPP under Windows XP/SP2.

How have you installed XAMPP (exact steps)?

It has been some time since I installed XAMPP for Windows XP, but I do recall that I attempted to do a standard install. I could not detail the exact installation steps at this point.

I installed XAMPP 1.5.4a previously on a Linux machine, and I have been able to access PHPMyAdmin on that machine. phpinfo() has MySQL and MySQLi settings. Curiously Status indicates that MySQL (and everything else) is disabled, which is confusing.

I'm having the exact same problem. Everything was working until I installed Zend. That's when the problems started.

I'm doing some checks to see if I can isolate the problem but no luck as of yet. I've changed the php.ini file with the one in the XAMPP Apache file folder and made sure that the php_mysql.dll extension was uncommented. I also checked the extension path by using both the Zend path and the XAMPP path (not at the same time of course) but nothing.

I think it's time to go back to Dreamweaver where things worked

Everything was working until I installed Zend.

1st: You mean "Zend Optimizer" with "Zend"?

2nd: You have installed a new "Zend Optimier" from zend.com, or just enabled the "Zend Optimizer" provided by XAMPP?

Actually, it's Zend Platform that's the problem. I uninstalled all the Zend products that I had on my system and got back to just XAMPP. At that point, everything worked fine.

The first Zend product that I re-installed was Platform 2.2.3 and the problems came back. I un-installed it again and everything went back to normal.

<edit> I forgot to mention that I followed Marcel's PDF on installing Zend Platform on XAMPP. It doesn't work quite as described, but close enough. I also un-commented the Zend Optimizer line in the PHP.ini file </edit>

I then installed Zend Studio(5.5.0), Optimizer(3.2.0) and Guard(4.0.1) and tested after each install. Everything worked fine.

I placed a ticket to Zend regarding this and the response was that Platform doesn't work with XAMPP 1.5.5 because of PHP 5.2 and that I should downgrade my XAMPP.

I have a better solution. I won't worry about installing Platform until it catches up. I was just testing Platform to see how it worked and if there was any advantage to using it.

I have sites written with PHP 5.2 that I need to be able to maintain and I really don't feel like re-writing them in 5.1 or 4.x just so I can test a piece of software. Unfortunately, I don't have a testing computer to play with this so I was working with a production machine. Maybe this will give me an excuse to buy a test system.