[drupal-devel] [feature] MySQLi support

[nsk]

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http://drupal.org/node/29910
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 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    database system
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     critical
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  nsk
 Updated by:   nsk
 Status:       patch (ready to be committed)
 Attachment:   http://drupal.org/files/issues/nskpatch.tar.bz2 (4.14 KB)

I added MySQLi support to Drupal by adding a database.mysqli.inc file.
After chx's suggestion I also removed $row from db_result from both
mysqli and mysql files.


Users are supposed to connect to Drupal with a mysqli "URL" in their
settings.php. Just adding an "i" in the mysql entry in settings.php
would work.


MySQLi is the new MySQL client in PHP which connects to MySQL 4.1, 5.0
and beyond. MySQLi replaces the older MySQL library which was popular
with MySQL 3.23 and 4.0.


http://gr.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysqli.php


The older MySQL client does not support full functionality with MySQL
4.1, that's why MySQLi is important.


MySQLi works in PHP 4.1.3 or above, and is more popular in PHP 5.


MySQLi means MySQL Improved.


This patch should be included in core.




nsk