Setup PHP5 with MySQL module in Ubuntu 20.04

Asked Sep 15 '22 at 13:21

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I'm trying to setup legacy PHP project which uses PHP5 in WSL(Ubuntu 20.04). I'm facing some difficulties while installing PHP5 and MySQL module. I've configured the PHP5 environment but couldn't install a MySQL module. I'm facing error message as Call to undefined function mysql_connect(). I used this answer to setup PHP5.

I know there are some security vulnerabilities in older PHP version and I'm not going to run this legacy app in production.

Could anyone point to ppa which has PHP5 MySQL modules? Any help would be much appreciated.

asked Sep 15 '22 at 13:21

Mdumanoj

Are you using the ondrej repo for your PHP libraries? Or are you using something else? – matigo Sep 15 '22 at 13:24
I'm using ppa:sergey-dryabzhinsky/php53 repo – Mdumanoj Sep 15 '22 at 13:26
Shouldn't you use the --with-mysql flag in the ./configure command? – Jos Sep 15 '22 at 13:30
I tried now it didn't help. First I used ./configure command without any flags. How can I enable mysql now? Should I remove php and install it from scratch again? – Mdumanoj Sep 15 '22 at 13:47
try this? sudo apt-get install php53-mod-mysql – Cagri Sep 15 '22 at 15:05
@Cagri Yep I tried this too and getting following error message php53-mod-mysql : Depends: libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1) but it is not installable – Mdumanoj Sep 16 '22 at 06:02
@Mdumanoj were you able to install the package? I am also having the same error, – Mr. Kenneth Mar 07 '23 at 07:28
@Mr.Kenneth, No. We decided to upgrade the PHP version – Mdumanoj Jan 10 '24 at 08:54

Setup PHP5 with MySQL module in Ubuntu 20.04

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