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After the decision to go develop in PHP5, i looked at available PHP5 providers here in the Netherlands. Now, it seemed nice to go develop
on PHP5 and use e.g. the mysqli library. But there is no-one offering that service, other than "you'll have to buy your own server". 

This is sad. The cause I report this bug is that while mysqli (and many other extensions) are available, they are not enabled by default. And sysadmins, who in most cases, are not developers, may not feel the same need for new libraries as developers do.

Now the dearest reader of this may not consider the above a bug (shouldn't it be discussed, or has it not already been discussed) at various mailing lists or forums, to me, as an average programmer and php user, the problem of not having a host offering PHP5+mysqli will probably be over in a couple of months, after the default configuration is set to --with-mysql AND --with-mysqli ...
or any other way that will cause installing sysadmins tend to think: "Hey, I need to install this mysqli, otherwise i'm lagging behind. What is mysqli, actually??"

Hosting providers I talked to really don't know. I don't want to say whether this is a bug of documentation, of code, of marketing, or just a feature. All I'm saying is that there is no-one in the Netherlands offering mysqli except on your own server. Is that good?

So it might actually be enough to change
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php , example 4.4 and just change

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql

I'll leave to others what is wisdom here. 

Thanks for considering this and your time.