I installed PHP 5.4.6 via Remi repo using yum (CentOS 5 64 bit)
I ran this as well "yum --enablerepo=remi --disablerepo=base,updates install php54-mysql" and it says it worked, but when i try to start PHP-FPM, it says this
>Starting php-fpm: [26-Sep-2012 21:28:09] NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysql.so' - libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
>[26-Sep-2012 21:28:09] NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysqli.so' - libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
>[26-Sep-2012 21:28:09] NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/pdo_mysql.so' - libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
i looked for "libmysqlclient.so.15" but all i found was "libmysqlclient.so.18" on the server
also if it helps im using nginx and mysql 5.5
You may do this, find your php.ini file and add this variable(If exist and change it.):
extension_dir = "/path/to/some/folder"
then put your all .so files in /path/to/some/folder path.
then restart apache, test it
You may look this link, I had also hard time with php+mysql integration. https://askubuntu.com/questions/174509/connection-failed-to-open-the-db-connection-could-not-find-driver