[support] Diff MYSQL - MYSQLi

[Jensen Somers]

bharani kumar wrote:
> Hi Drupal
> 
> What is the diffrent between mysql and mysqli,
> 
> I am having interest to move mysqli,
> 
> any great different u know,
> 
> Just share it
> 

MySQLi (MySQL improved) is designed to be used with MySQL version 4.1
and upwards. It contains various improvements. Read the PHP manual pages
[1] to get a better view of the difference and [2] contains a benchmark
result.

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/intro.mysqli.php
[2] http://www.johnjawed.com/benchmarks/

- Jensen