slooze error: validateInputs(); $msg = $mySlooze->renderPage($vars); echo $msg; ?>

[rioguia]

i'm trying to install slooze on my apache webserver using the mysql option. when i select the test page,
file:///home/photos/photos.php
i get the following display.
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This is a demonstration of Slooze PHP Web Photo Album. For the latest information see www.slooze.com.
validateInputs(); $msg = $mySlooze->renderPage($vars); echo $msg; ?>

This is the view seen by browsers who do not have administrative access. To make changes, use the admin page.

[rioguia]

ive been trying to do some more trouble-shooting on the above SLOOZE problem and i'm beginning to wonder if this is a PHP error or a database error. as noted above, i'm trying to install slooze on my apache webserver using the mysql option. when i try to install the mysql-3.23.54a-3.72.i386.rpm for redhat 7.2 i get no error messages. when i try to initialize the grant tables using
mysql_install_db
i get the following error message
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# /usr/bin/mysql_install_db
Didn't find /usr/libexec/mysqld
You should do a 'make install' before executing this script
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i suspect that the problem is associatied with a separate install of mysql that came packaged with ezpublish 2.7. the rpm advertises itself as providing and requiring the following packages.

Provides

mysql
libmysqlclient.so.10

Requires

/sbin/ldconfig
/sbin/install-info
grep
fileutils
chkconfig
bash >= 2.0
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
libcrypt.so.1
libc.so.6
libm.so.6
libmysqlclient.so.10
libncurses.so.5
libnsl.so.1
libpthread.so.0
libreadline.so.4
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
libz.so.1


does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?

thanks.