Two MAMP/WordPress sites, one with “missing MySQL” error

I’m trying to do some major dev on a two sites I built a couple years ago. They’re both just plain old WordPress installs with some customized themes. I pulled them both down off production today in an attempt to get them running locally to do this dev. First one goes fine. Second one keeps throwing the

Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which
is required by WordPress.

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error. They’re both running on the same MAMP install on my system, just different directories. So I’m pretty confused as to why there’s a difference. Typical “check phpinfo” on server responses to this issue don’t really help as they’re on the same server and have the same settings. Nothing SEEMS out of place within wp-config or phpMyAdmin. Feeling lost… plz help.

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  1. Welp, I’m dumb. My MAMP was defaulting to php 7. Turned it back to 5.6 and now I’m in business.

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