Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions.  Due to the volume
of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
a bug.  The support channels will be able to provide an explanation
for you.

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

Well then where is the problem comming from? I HAVE followed ALL the instructions for setup on IIS and MySQL is running fine, so if this isnt a bug then why is it happening?

www.php.net/mysql

"MySQL is no longer enabled by default, so the 
php_mysql.dll DLL must be enabled"...

Ok, are you not READING what I write? In my very first post I said I have enabled the DLL file, but PHP will not connect. so why don't we do this, instead of just changing this to bogus (again) lets figure out whats going on, and see if we cant come toan agreement as to the status, if you think its bogus then tell me what to do.

Still not PHP problem.
And I don't see any reasons to post parts of the docs here, it's not a forum.

Fine, you are right its not a forum, for some ODD reason I couldnt find even one forum out there devoted to PHP, and If I were a newbie, and not someone who has worked with PHP since PHP2.0 I might agree that I just made a config mistake, but I have, I didnt and I still think this may be some sort of problem with PHP not liking something.

There is detailed description of what should be done in order to enable MySQL support in PHP: http://php.net/mysql

wow I NEVER knew that was ther, I mean its not like I EVER have used PHP 5.0 and MySQL together, I mean like whoa who would have thought they worked together?

again, as stated in my first post I ALREADY READ THAT!

Well I have done some more testing and I have pinpointed the problem, no matter what I do to the php.ini file, PHP ignores it. To test this I went into the ini file and changed safemode to on, but after a restart, phpinfo still has it listed as off, as well as a few other things i have noticed, like the ext directory is set to "c:\php5" but in the ini file it is set to "c:\php\ext". I dont understand why this is, but if I had to guess I would think that PHP was using a built in ini file. so now can you still tell me this is bogus? and if so what am I to do then?

Everyone I've talked to says this has to be a bug, or an error in the 5.1.6.6 build, I'm not new to PHP/MySQL, I've been at it since PHP was 2 I know what I am doing, take a look at http://dragon-radio.selfip.net for yourself, you will see on the page itself my phpinfo output as well as my entire current PHP.ini file (no its not copy and pasted its generated with the folowing code echo "<br/><br/><pre>";
ob_start();
  readfile('c:\php5\php.ini');
  $data = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_flush();
echo"</pre>";) you can see for yourself that I have everything in there right, but PHP is ignoring it.

php.ini should be placed in d:\windows as you can see from that phpinfo() page.

nope, no good, now PHP wont start at all. all page requests now come back 404. its not a misconfiguration, there is something else wrong.

Well I think we just discovered a clue, when I MOVED php.ini to the d:\Windows, php failed, when I COPIED php.ini back to c:\PHP5 php still failed to start, but once I DELETED the php.ini file in d:\Windows PHP Started fine, but still isn't reading the ini info...

All error messages are in your Apache error_log.
The fact that you're unable to put libmysql.dll in you PATH and copy appropriate php.ini to c:\windows is definitely NOT PHP problem.

Well to Update this, I have switched to apache and WITHOUT CHANGING ANYTHING IN PHP.INI it works fine, straight away. so now again, I tell you there is a bug in php, I suspect is has something to do with the php5isapi.dll, you might want to check into it, instead of just saying I made a mistake.

Ok, I AM NOT the only one expiriencing this issue, see bug #30231 he is having the exact same problems I am.

Please, this is not a forum. Stop wasting our time with something you were doing wrong before.

I am not doing anything wrong, how is it wasting your time telling you that there is a problem with how PHP and IIS interact? everything worked fine in pre v5 versions. and you want to talk about wasting time? I had to convert my entire webserver to work with apache! I do not like having to go in and edit .conf files everytime I want to make a change, I LIKE GUI's and apache doesnt have one!

Only to confirm that using IIS with php and mysql or mysqli works very well. I just tested a fresh 5.2 snapshot and another using 5.1.6.

akaraethon, I'm sorry if you don't have a gui for apache, but it is not a PHP bug or problem. However we have mailing lists to help our users with their installation problems or to let them ask any kind of 1st level support. Please use them:

http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php

Thanks for your understanding and please leave this bug closed now (bogus).