Is there any way to connect to MySQL 5.0 from PHP 5.x WITHOUT using ODBC?

Question by Gruumsh: Is there any way to connect to MySQL 5.0 from PHP 5.x WITHOUT using ODBC?
Here is the dilemma. I was using Win2K, Apache 2.0, MySQL 3.x, PHP 4.3.x ... no problems whatsoever. But, for a recent project, I needed the latest,

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