What's the difference between PHP support without MySQL and PHP support and MySQL ?

Thanks.

MySQL is a database application, and is separate from PHP. MySQL is probably the most popular database on the Web for small-to-medium sized sites, and is great for bulletin board-type apps (like this one). PHP has MySQL support built in, although if MySQL is not installed on the server you obviously won't be able to take advantage of it.

Depending on the type of site you want to run you may not need MySQL, but it's good to have as it gives you the flexibility to run third-party apps like guest books, e-commerce apps, and more (although you can find non-MySQL versions of most things, MySQL is fast and again, it's good to have the flexibility and a wider range of choices).

Thank you for your answer.

I am not very familiar with this stuff so I'll try another question:

If you have PHP support and no MySQL what can you do? Are you able to generate dynamic content pages from, let's say, txt files or something like that ?

Thanks.

yup.. you can use flat file.. but isnt really recommeneded if your site is popular and gets lots of traffic :)

Yes toma, you can do almost anything with PHP without MySQL support. As Intelligenthost told you, you won't be able to access the db, but the other stuff (reading from files, making maths computation, etc.) will be accessible (you may not be able to access graphics through gd, xml, etc. if you don't have the appropriate modules installed: I don't know the configuration of your server, but probably you don't need these modules - you *don't* need them to do *basic* - common - operations)

Bye, :)

Thank you very much everybody. The clouds are disappearing now.

Thanks again.