pdo mysql installatin

Below are the instructions to install pdo extension for mysql

First, install PEAR

sudo apt-get install php-pear

If you get anything about warning, ‘phpize’, this means you need php-dev. To install this simpy put this in the terminal (sudo apt-get install php-dev)

sudo pecl install pdo

Next, install pdo_mysql drivers.

sudo pecl install pdo_mysql

If you encounter the error below,

checking for MySQL support for PDO... yes, shared
checking for mysql_config... not found
configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under
ERROR: `/tmp/tmpRiQ5ax/PDO_MYSQL-1.0.2/configure' failed

Then put this in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

and then sudo pecl install pdo_mysql

You can update the db below as follows:

sudo updatedb

Open the php.ini file:
gksudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Inside it put these lines at the bottom:

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so