PHP-CPP new extension works on cli 'php' command but not in browser

I am using PHP-CPP to create a php extension which contains a function that will parse a table from mysql.

extension.cpp

#include <phpcpp.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <mysql.h>

Php::Value  ss_parse_table(Php::Parameters &params)
{ 
MYSQL *conn;
MYSQL_RES *res;
MYSQL_ROW row;
MYSQL_FIELD *field;

/* INITIALIZE CONNECTION HANDLER, DO NOT CHANGE */
conn = mysql_init (NULL);


// @param orders: host,username,password,database,
mysql_real_connect (conn, params[0], params[1], params[2], params[3], 3306, NULL, 0);
/* show tables in the database (test for errors also) */


mysql_query(conn,("SELECT * FROM table");
res = mysql_store_result(conn);


// get the number of the columns
int num_fields = mysql_num_fields(res);

Php::Value array;
Php::Value rows;
int i = 0;

while((field = mysql_fetch_field(res))){
    array[i] = field->name;
    i++;
}

int x = 0;
while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(res)))
{

    for (int z=0;z<num_fields;z++) 
    {
        std::string fieldname = array[z];
        rows[x][fieldname] = row[z];
    }

    x++;
}

// DON'T FORGET TO CLEAN RESULT AFTER YOU DON'T NEED IT 
// ANYMORE
if(res != NULL)
   mysql_free_result(res);

/* disconnect from server */
mysql_close (conn);

return rows;

}

extern "C" {


  PHPCPP_EXPORT void *get_module() 
  {
    \
    static Php::Extension extension("extension", "1.0");
    extension.add("ss_parse_table",ss_parse_table);
    // @todo    add your own functions, classes, namespaces to the extension

    // return the extension
    return extension;
  }
}

and in compiling I edited the MakeFile and appended mysql_config --cflags --libs in the compiler command in order to load mysql so it will look like g++ -shared -o extension.so extension.o -lphpcpp mysql_config --cflags --libs the compilation works fine.

I tried testing if the compilation really worked by using the defined function (ss_parse_table) from the extension. So I created a php file:

test.php

<?php
  print_r(ss_parse_table( "localhost", "dbuser","dbpassword","database"));
 ?>

and from the CLI when I run the command 'php /mnt/test/index.php' it works fine. The command will output array returned by the defined extension function (ss_parse_table), something like this

Array
(
  [0] => Array
  (
    [id] => 'erd'
  )
)

but when I browse it from the browser the http fails

'No data received' (chrome error) or 'The connection was reset' (firefox error)