PHP List,
Based on what seemed to be good advice to switch to using mysqli for
interacting with a MySQL database, I built a content management system
that uses mysqli for all it's calls.
It works great on a lot of my servers. However, I just discovered that
one web hosting service I use does not have mysqli enabled. I ran the
phpinfo() command and they are running 5.2.5, but the configure command
does not contain "--with-mysqli".
I would like the scripts I've written to be somewhat portable, but I'm
unsure of whether or not I should assume that mysqli is in use.
I see it as being a situation of essentially two options.
One is based on the assumption that mysqli is as likely not to be
available as it is to be installed. In this case I should write my
scripts to test whether it exists and then use either mysqli or straight
mysql commands as appropriate. If this is the way to go, what do I do to
test for the existence of mysqli from within a PHP script?
The other is to assume that recent installs and upgrades of PHP > 5
should have mysqli because that's the currently preferred way of doing
things, and therefore I should contact the web host and ask that they
install it, or I find a different host.
Which assumption should I be proceeding with?
Thank you for any advice or assistance.
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Dave M G
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