PHP and MySQL

Hi all - here's the story...  I installed MySQL 5 on my Windows XP computer
and everything seems to work splendidly.  I then installed Apache, and that
worked wonderfully also.  I added PHP5, and tested it with a simple "echo"
statement and it worked marvelously.  In a rapture, I tried to connect to a
MySQL database using mysql_connect and I got an error message that in effect
said Apache didn't know what the heck the function was.  I remembered that
PHP5 doesn't automatically include MySQL support, so I went to the PHP
webpage and did the two things they stated I needed to do (put the php.ini
file in the c:\windows directory, which it already was, and add it to the
PATH environmental variable).  I also "uncommented" the extension
php_mysql.dll in the php.ini file.  But it still doesn't work!  I'm at my
wit's end.  What am I doing wrong?  One book says that I should put the
libmysql.dll in the c:\windows directory, but I'm wondering if it should be
in the extensions folder (c:\php\ext).  Is this correct?  Can someone give
me some advice (besides "Use ODBC instead")?  
 
Donald J. Lancaster
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