Requirements

In order to have the PBMS functions available, you must first install the PBMS extension and setup PHP's php.ini file to instruct PHP to load the PBMS extension.

The PBMS PHP extension connects to a PBMS engine running as part of a MySQL database server. So before you can use the PBMS functions you must also have a MySQL server running that has loaded the PBMS engine.

Since the PBMS functions are usually used in conjunction with MySQL functions you will probably also want to make sure that the PHP MySQL extension is also available.