title: Installing PDO driver on MySQL Linux server
body: <p>I was suggested, not long ago, to change my code to use PDO in order to parameterize my queries and safely save HTML in the database.</p>
  
  <p>Well, here are the main problems:</p>
  
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  <li><p>I looked at <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php" rel="noreferrer">http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php</a>, and I don't really get where I should put that <code>$ ./configure --with-pdo-mysql</code> string...</p></li>
  <li><p>The site I'm building actually only requires PDO for one page. While I may consider re-writing it, it would take a while and I need the pages to be running soon, so I can't turn off MySQL completely. If I do install PDO, will I still be able to use <code>mysql_*</code> handlers?</p></li>
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  <p>The server in question is running PHP Version 5.4.6-1ubuntu1 and Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu). I'm also running a phpMyAdmin database, if it matters.</p>