On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:09:57PM +0100, James Thorpe wrote: > > >As Paul said it should work once you have the php-mysql and php-gd > >packages installed. > > > >Does "php -m" show these modules are loaded, from the command line? > > > No - and I just noticed that phpinfo() contains in the config command > section: '--without-mysql' '--without-gd' That's not relevant. > but a bit further down in the addtional ini files parsed: > /etc/php.d/gd.ini, /etc/php.d/ldap.ini, /etc/php.d/mysql.ini, > /etc/php.d/mysqli.ini If mysql.ini and gd.ini are parsed then there is some other problem with your system. Please do: # strace -eopen -o php.trace php -m > php.output and send in as attachments the php.trace and php.output files produced. joe