Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() error

Question

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago) I faced the below mentioned error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www-live/muthoot/include/load_config.php on line 10

How can I fix this ?

Answer 1

The problem is most likely caused by MySQL module being disabled in PHP. As mysql module is deprecated you should use mysqli or PDO, I would suggest using mysqli_connect() instead.

To do that, make sure you have php-pdo and php-mysqli packages installed and make sure that php.ini contains this (for PDO):

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so

Or this (for mysqli):

extension=mysqli.so

Answer 2

Check the php.ini to see if the mysql extension is actived. If not, install it.