How do I install a new PDO driver to an existing LAMP installation?
I am using Amazon Linux (on AWS EC2), and have installed PHP 5.5 and MySql from the Amazon repositories. When I look at phpinfo
I can see that PDO is successfully installed, along with PDO_SqlLite. I need to add PDO_MySql.
Based on what I have read, I can either re-compile PHP with the PDO_MySql included, or download it from a repository. The first option sounds like hard work, and potentially very messy. The second option would be good, but as far as I can see the Amazon Linux yum repositories don't include the PDO_MySql driver for PHP 5.5. (I could be wrong, since I'm new to yum).
What other options are there? What would happen if I just downloaded the .so file from somewhere, put it alongside the other .so files, and called it in my php.ini?
I am using AMI 2013.09.
UPDATE: This pecl link, http://pecl.php.net/package/PDO_MYSQL, says that PDO_MySql has been moved to PHP source. Perhaps it's just a matter of enabling it then?