I uncommented this line in the php.ini file: extension=php_mysqli.dll and my extension is "extension_dir = "ext"".
The php_mysqli.dll does exist in the ext folder.
I am using php 5.5+ so I should not have to manually set the path for libmysql.dll.
Running mysqli_connect yields a fatal error.
I do not understand why this does not work. When I did this with my php_sqlsrv_55_ts.dll file, I was able to connect to sql server immediately. I do not see anything I missed in these installation instructions:
http://www.php.net//manual/en/mysqli.installation.php
Where do I go from here?
Windows 7 apache 2.4 php 5.5.9 No instance of mysql in this machine.