diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2e04a4f4b..503b1adaf 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$ 
 $Source$
 
+2001-06-28  Steve Alberty  <alberty@neptunlabs.de>
+	* fixed bug with dl and PHP 3
+
 2001-06-27  Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* add function tbl_name() to protect table names like 00001_Files
 	* bug 434608: support db names with special characters (MySQL >= 3.23.6)
diff --git a/lib.inc.php3 b/lib.inc.php3
index c42c3f628..c435852c5 100755
--- a/lib.inc.php3
+++ b/lib.inc.php3
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ if(!defined("__LIB_INC__")){
 // load the mysql extensions or not - staybyte - 26. June 2001
 	if (defined("PHP_OS") && eregi("win", PHP_OS)) $suffix=".dll";
 	else $suffix=".so";
-	if (!extension_loaded("mysql") && !get_cfg_var("safe_mode")) @dl("mysql".$suffix);
-	if (!extension_loaded("mysql")){
+	if (intval(phpversion())==3) $extension="MySQL";
+	else $extension="mysql";
+	if (!extension_loaded($extension) && !get_cfg_var("safe_mode")) @dl($extension.$suffix);
+	if (!extension_loaded($extension)){
 		echo $strCantLoadMySQL;
 		exit;
 	}