Re: [gentoo-user] "mysql_connect() or mysql_query()" deprecated

[Michael]

On Monday, 26 October 2020 00:48:13 GMT thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> On 10/25/2020 06:30 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 05:24:26PM -0600, thelma wrote in
> >
> > <f091a4f7-7769-b1e8-3455-2e6af52dbe9a@×××××××××××.com>:
> >> The function in newer php "mysql_connect() or mysql_query()" were
> >> removed but I don't know starting from which version?
> >>
> >> I'm running PHP Version 5.6.33-pl0-gentoo and these function work.
> >> But I upgraded one of my system to php-5.6.40 and I'm getting an error:
> >>
> >> PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in
> >> /var/www/catalog/admin/includes/functions/database.php on line 19
> >
> > Hi Thelma,
> >
> > I think mysql support was not removed between the two versions you
> > mention. The PHP website says "This extension was deprecated in PHP
> > 5.5.0, and it was removed in PHP 7.0.0.", which would be a logical
> > point to do this. Could it be that your "use" flags for PHP changed?
> > Make sure to emerge PHP with the mysql use flag to build with mysql
> > database support.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Remco
>
> I'm running the osCommerce server and upgraded one of the box to apache 2.4
> The server is running OK but I can not access admin:
>
> "apache 2.4 you don't have permission to access /index.php on this server"
>
> I disable almost everthing in server/admin/.htaccess

I would think this error points to an apache configuration issue rather than 
php.