recently i install the Wamp last version in my local computer. Before that i used php in Windows 7 - IIS 7.5. I used PDO mysql and it workd just fine.
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Please check if you are editing on php.ini in the apache servers bin folder (e.g: \apache2.4.18\bin)
If you are editing the php.ini in your php
folder those changes will not work. Please check your php.ini
in your apache\bin
to see if you have extension=php_mysql.dll
and don't forget to restart the services.