PHP Installer Mysqli
sudo apt-get install php-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart
Friendly Hawk
sudo apt-get install php-mysql
sudo service apache2 restart
Installation / Runtime Configuration
For the MySQLi functions to be available, you must compile PHP with support for the MySQLi extension. The MySQLi extension was introduced with PHP version 5.0. 0. The MySQL Native Driver was included in PHP version 5.3.