Can somebody walk me through adding mysql extensions to PHP5 on a windows server?

I'm trying to help a friend with some projects which requires PHP5 and it needs to access his MySQL database.

I've got PHP5 setup and running without problem, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to add the MySQL extensions.

All the documentation says is to add "--with-mysql" to the configuration, but I can't even figure out where to find the configuration.

I know where PHP.ini is stored, but that is on long assed file and I don't know where to add that.

IMPORTANT: This is a Windows Server 2003 box.

Could somebody help me out please? Rep to whoever gives me the solution

(I'm not a sys admin, I try to avoid it but I don't have much choice lol)

 

THe easy solution... install a package such as XAMPP which offers PHP, Apache and MySQL all in the same install...

 

The server already has Apache, PHP, and MySQL setup and running. I just need to know how to enable PHP to connect to MySQL.

 

Look in the php.ini for the mysql module, and make sure its not commented out.