Warning Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library ....

[smith]

I received this error today while working with PHP and a Windows Server. PHP Version 4.3.

Warning Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library <filedir/name> The specified
module could not be found.

When checking the extensions directory the file was there. I found the problem was certain DLLs need to be inserted into the Windows/System32 directory. What I did was copied all of the dlls in the php/dll directory over to c:\windows\system32. This is not the extensions directory dlls but the actual "dll" directory inside of PHP on windows. This resolved the error. The reason I am posting is because I found hardly no support on this on the web but I did find a lot of people asking this question and having this error.

If you have any problems, let me know.

[Kaabi]

If this problem occurs so numerously, it is surprising that there is no help on the Web. Maybe you should make a Web page about it, to help other people who are having the same problem.

[Jordan]

Nice post. I've ran into this error before. The next error you will see is "Unable to connect to database ...."

You will need to install the SQL Client Side Tools to get past this error. This really should be documented better.