How to enable mysqli extension on redhat?

Question

My php.ini says:

Additional .ini files parsed

    /etc/php53/php.d/curl.ini,   
 /etc/php53/php.d/fileinfo.ini, /etc/php53/php.d/json.ini, /etc/php53/php.d/mysqli.ini,
 /etc/php53/php.d/mysql.ini, /etc/php53/php.d/pdo_mysql.ini, /etc/php53/php.d/phar.ini, 
/etc/php53/php.d/zip.ini

mysqli.ini is loaded.. But still i get this,

PHP Fatal error: Class 'mysqli' not found

• i tried enabling dynamic loading and initialize php scripts with dl("mysqli.so");

• i also tried recompiling the php source:

  ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/lib64/mysql --with-
  mysqli=/usr/lib64/mysql/mysql_config
  

even this didn't work. Can anybody help me solve my problem?

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga).
2. x86_64 GNU/Linux.
3. No access to RHN.

Thanks.

Solution

If you're using php5.5.x then:

$ sudo yum install php55-mysqlnd

or:

$ yum install php[your version]-mysqli or mysql 

If you're greater than 5.3:

$ yum install php[your version]-mysqlnd

Comments

[Michael Hampton]

If you don't have an active Red Hat subscription, either purchase one, or convert the system to CentOS.

[GioMac]

how did you install php?

[nuthan]

yes phpinfo() does not show this module!!! php -i|grep extension_dir shows extension_dir => /usr/lib64/php53/modules => /usr/lib64/php53/modules ls -lha /usr/lib64/php53/modules/mysqli.so shows -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 130K Aug 23 06:58 /usr/lib64/php53/modules/mysqli.so ldd /usr/lib64/php53/modules/mysqli.so shows libs phpinfo

[Salton]

@nuthan I am running into the same issue. were you able to resolve this issue?

[nuthan]

@Salton Its been a quiet long time. The issue was resolved, but I dont remember exactly how it did. Sorry for that. Anyway, what issues r u facing now?