Apache public_html question

[Don Russell]

Don Russell wrote:
> Peter Lauri wrote:
>>> For even greater security, create a directory especially for files,
>>> say "~/public_html/files", and treat it as above.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> [Peter Lauri - DWS Asia] And even more secure would be to keep it OUT 
>> of the web directory. Unless
>> you want someone to be able to access this file directly from the web.
>
> Well, I decided against both of these suggestions and am going to use
> MySQL instead of a file... that will be more "portable" (not that that
> is really an issue)... but it really seems like a more "proper" solution.
>
> Don
>
Nothing's simple. :-)

I don't have mysql support in php....

Maybe I'll just defer this project a couple of months until FC7.... how 
easy is it to reinstall php so it has mysql support in it?