I'm trying to support a rickety old system until the new intranet is built. The previous programmer somehow got PHP4 and MySQL 5 to work together by doing option 1 and I need to do the same to make a dev environment so I can stop messing directly with the live server.I currently have a test server running PHP4 and I can't connect to my test DB or live DB because both are MySQL 5. Google is failing me because the easiest route seems to be to change the password to use Can I get any help?