Win 8.1 IIS 8.5 PHP Error - Call to undefined function mysql_connect()

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Windows 8.1 IIS 8.5 php 5.4.24 MySQL 5.5. I used the MS Web Platform Installer 5.0 to install php, mysql

I can go to http://localhost and view my phpInfo() page. However, when I try to go to the default login page http://localhost/xyz/default.php, I get this error: “Call to undefined function mysql_connect()”

The line in the code throwing the error looks like this:

$XYZ['db_connect'] = mysql_connect($XYZ['db_host'],$XYZ['db_user'],$XYZ['db_password']);

Any ideas are appreciated.

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Have you enabled the old-style mysql access library in PHP settings-> PHP extensions? I’m wondering if that installation defaults to only enabling mysqli or PDO libraries. In any case it’s apparently only a matter of time until mysql is left off hosted installations as support for it is in the process of being removed in favour of mysqli and PDO.

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Thanks for the response. I will look into that.

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