How to enable mysqlnd for php?

Question

I have PHP installed and running (version: 5.3.17) and I want to switch to mysqlnd (in the phpinfo mysqlnd does not exist at all).

I read that in order to set it, yo

Answer 1

Don't know if i understand you right.... Simply download the source of php (php-5.x.x.tar.gz), unzip the source and change to that directory then

 bash:/dir/of/your/source # ./configure --with-mysql=... and your other config params

after that just make it by

 bash:/dir/of/your/source # sudo make && make install