How can I enable the MySQLi extension in PHP 7?
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I have installed PHP 7 and MySQL 5.5.47 on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).
I have checked installed extension using:
sudo apt-cache search php7-*
It outputs:
php7.0-common - Common files for packages built from the PHP source
libapache2-mod-php7.0 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module)
php7.0-cgi - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
php7.0-cli - command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language
php7.0-phpdbg - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (PHPDBG binary)
php7.0-fpm - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary)
libphp7.0-embed - HTML-embedded scripting language (Embedded SAPI library)
php7.0-dev - Files for PHP7.0 module development
php7.0-dbg - Debug symbols for PHP7.0
php7.0-curl - CURL module for PHP
php7.0-enchant - Enchant module for PHP
php7.0-gd - GD module for PHP
php7.0-gmp - GMP module for PHP
php7.0-imap - IMAP module for PHP
php7.0-interbase - Interbase module for PHP
php7.0-intl - Internationalisation module for PHP
php7.0-ldap - LDAP module for PHP
php7.0-mcrypt - libmcrypt module for PHP
php7.0-readline - readline module for PHP
php7.0-odbc - ODBC module for PHP
php7.0-pgsql - PostgreSQL module for PHP
php7.0-pspell - pspell module for PHP
php7.0-recode - recode module for PHP
php7.0-snmp - SNMP module for PHP
php7.0-tidy - tidy module for PHP
php7.0-xmlrpc - XMLRPC-EPI module for PHP
php7.0-xsl - XSL module for PHP
php7.0 - server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
php7.0-json - JSON module for PHP
php-all-dev - package depending on all supported PHP development packages
php7.0-sybase - Sybase module for PHP
php7.0-sqlite3 - SQLite3 module for PHP
php7.0-mysql - MySQL module for PHP
php7.0-opcache - Zend OpCache module for PHP
php7.0-bz2 - bzip2 module for PHP
I am not able to see the MySQLi extension using phpinfo() either. How can I enable/install MySQLi extension in PHP 7?
That's why I cannot use phpMyAdmin. It says "The mysqli extension is missing."
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
The problem is that the package that used to connect PHP to MySQL is deprecated (php5-mysql). If you install the new package,
sudo apt-get install php-mysql
this will automatically update Apache and PHP 7.
Solution 2 - Php
I got the solution. I am able to enable MySQLi extension in php.ini. I just uncommented this line in php.ini:
extension=php_mysqli.dll
Now MySQLi is working well. Here is the php.ini file path in an Apache 2, PHP 7, and Ubuntu 14.04 environment:
/etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini
By default, the MySQLi extension is disabled in PHP 7.
Solution 3 - Php
sudo phpenmod mysqli
sudo service apache2 restart
phpenmod moduleNameenables a module to PHP 7 (restart Apache after thatsudo service apache2 restart)phpdismod moduleNamedisables a module to PHP 7 (restart Apache after thatsudo service apache2 restart)php -mlists the loaded modules
Solution 4 - Php
For all docker users, just run docker-php-ext-install mysqli from inside your php container.
Update: More information on https://hub.docker.com/_/php in the section "How to install more PHP extensions".
Solution 5 - Php
On Ubuntu, when mysqli is missing, execute the following,
sudo apt-get install php7.x-mysqli
sudo service apache2 restart
Replace 7.x with your PHP version.
Note: This could be 7.0 and up, but for example Drupal recommends PHP 7.2 on grounds of security among others.
To check your PHP version, on the command-line type:
php -v
You do exactly the same if you are missing mbstring:
apt-get install php7.x-mbstring
service apache2 restart
I recently had to do this for phpMyAdmin when upgrading PHP from 7.0 to 7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).
Solution 6 - Php
In Ubuntu, you need to uncomment this line in file php.ini which is located at /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini:
extension=php_mysqli.so
Solution 7 - Php
In case of docker after installing the mysqli as per Speedy's answer above docker-php-ext-install mysqli you should restart the the fpm as per this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/43076457/932473
From inside container
kill -USR2 1
Solution 8 - Php
Let's use
mysqli_connect
instead of
mysql_connect
because mysql_connect isn't supported in PHP 7.