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suncat100
suncat100

Reputation: 2194

Is mysqli extension ubiquitous since PHP 5.3?

We have developed a web-application that runs on various server environments (> PHP 5.3), which currently uses the "deprecated" mysql extension to connect to mysql. Since PHP 7 however, it seems mysql is not installed by default, only the newer mysqli extension.

So we would like to convert our scripts to use mysqli, but we are concerned if the mysqli extension is not installed on "older" servers. So the question basically goes: Is mysqli generally ubiquitous since PHP version 5.3? Does anyone know from what version of PHP mysqli comes installed as default?

If some of our users are on hosts without mysqli, we would need to create a wrapper script, that detects if mysqli is available, and fall back to mysql if not.

Anyone with knowledge care to shine some light on this? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 391

Answers (1)

SISYN
SISYN

Reputation: 2269

MySQLi was added with PHP 5.0

You can check if mysqli is installed by doing this:

if ( function_exists('mysqli_connect') ) 
    // mysqli is installed

Upvotes: 2

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