| Re: mysqli --- who does the switching? [message #182002 is a reply to message #182001] |
Sat, 29 June 2013 01:23   |
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richard
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On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:11:56 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2013 20:39, in comp.lang.php, noreply(at)example(dot)com wrote:
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>> Y'all keep bashing me about switching to mysqli.
>> Well buttheads, as I see it, it ain't MY choice.
>> It is the decision of those that host the servers.
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> FWIW, the mysqli() interface was introduced with PHP 5.0 (says
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.overview.php)
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> As far as I can tell, your website is hosted by HostGator, who advertise
> that their hosting services provide (among other things) PHP 5.
> (http://www.hostgator.com/shared, under the "Programming and Database
> Features" heading)
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> It looks like your hosting service provides the PHP level that supports
> mysqli(). So, ISTM, there's nothing stopping you from writing your PHP
> scripts to use the mysqli() interface.
>
> [rant snipped]
>
> HTH
the script I used had mysqli and it would not work that way.
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