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

As of PHP 5.4, the mysqlnd library is a php.net compile time default to all PHP MySQL extensions. - Ref: dev.mysql.com

it would be a little easier to use XAMPP for Linux 1.8.1(it comes with PHP 5.4.7) then compiling from source.