You're right, it's there in PHP 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061332/http://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.html#pg95_support https://web.archive.org/web/200

You're right, it's there in PHP 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061332/http://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.html#pg95_support https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061332/http://www.php.ne... I think I'm remembering the Win32 binaries. At https://museum.php.net/win32/ https://museum.php.net/win32/ the PHP3 binaries only have MySQL. Shared hosts settling on MySQL probably made the difference.