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When I try to do anything that interfaces with MySQL, I get "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www-data/geeklog/system/databases/mysql.class.php on line 108"

This server is running Debian, and has php4 installed with APT. I installed php4-mysql, but it doesn't seem to be working. APT did define it as an extension in PHP4's INI files in /etc/php4/apache/php.ini and /etc/php4/cgi/php.ini. I've just started learning PHP, so I'm not sure if there is anything else I need to do manually to enable mysql support.

I'd rather not compile PHP from source unless I have to since its nice to be able to update it with APT.

Okay, nevermind. I spent hours running test programs, reinstalling and recompiling things, tracing the problem down to its source, and finally realized that I had forgotten to restart Apache. I thought the APT script would have done that for me if needed, but oh well. It seems to work now.

It looks pretty neat. I was going to write my own weblog program in Perl, but I guess I won't have to now.