title: How do I activate mysqli with wampserver?
body: <p>I've spent over 6 hours trying to connect to <code>phpMyAdmin</code>, and would be pulling out my hair if I had any.</p>
  
  <p>I downloaded <code>wampserver</code>, and have been dealing with issues. After solving about three of them, I finally got <code>phpMyAdmin</code> to pull up, but now it is giving me this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. &lt;a href="Documentation.html#faqmysql" target="documentation"&gt;&lt;img src="themes/dot.gif" title="Documentation" alt="Documentation" class="icon ic_b_help" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I read a lot of the other solutions to this problem and have tried them. Namely the common answer seems to be to uncomment mysqli and a couple other extensions, which I have done. </p>
  
  <p>After hours of trying different solutions, I am pretty stuck and could definitely use some specific answers if any are available.</p>
  
  <p>I was looking at someone else's code, and I noticed that their config file was different then mine when they got it working. </p>
  
  <p>Mine is linked to Windows, while theirs to their php.ini.
  Is this potentially the problem, and if so how do I change it?</p>
  
  <p>Here is mine:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/DK6oA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Here is theirs: 
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1mjqp.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Also, I can run <code>phpMyAdmin</code> through my hosting, but I need to run <code>php</code> on my <code>localhost</code>. Is <code>phpMyAdmin</code> even needed to do this? I loaded a file and it came up blank, without even posting the code or anything, so this is why I assumed I needed to mess with <code>phpMyAdmin</code> first.</p>