PHP 5.28 ---- no connection ----> MySQL 5.3 on IIS5.1

Bald? er, dash!

For sh!ts & giggles, I have been playing around with an old PC at home which is running XP Pro.

I have successfully (in so far as they are all working individually) installed the IIS windows component, PHP 5 and MySQL5 and even have my newly acquired domain name pointing at this setup
I just can't get my php pages to connect to the database either on localhost, LAN or WAN. I know MySQL is running - MySQL Administrator is able to connect and I have created tables. I can also make an ODBC connection to the database from MS Access, but the php pages are returning a 500 Internal Server Error. This is the connection code:

[PHP]
<?php
$hostname="localhost";
$mysql_login="my_username";
$mysql_password="my_password";
$database="my_database";

if (!($db = mysql_connect($hostname, $mysql_login , $mysql_password))){
die("Can't connect to database server.");
}else{
// select a database
if (!(mysql_select_db("$database",$db))){
die("Can't connect to database.");
}
}
?>
[/PHP]

This is similar to a connection I am using on a hosted website which works fine. It doesn't work at home...
I have also tried to get Dreamweaver to make a connection:eek:, but the same 500 Error is returned.

Anyone had any similar experiences setting up IIS, PHP & MySQL successfully and can point a noob in the right direction

Bald? er, dash!

Right, solved it myself...

The php installation was manual, so you have to edit the php.ini file in c:\windows to remove the semicolon from in front of the required dll

;extension=php_mssql.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll
;extension=php_mysqli.dll

and then moving that .dll from the ext folder in the php installation folder to the installation root folder (e.g. from c:\php\ext\ to c:\php\) Reboot and away you go - at least that's what worked for me.

Mods can lock if appropriate!