| Re: cant use mysql_connect [message #179451 is a reply to message #179446] |
Mon, 29 October 2012 13:23   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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J.O. Aho wrote:
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> phpmyadmin uses the mysql extension, not the mysqlnd, so you need to
>>> find a compiled mysql extension for your version of PHP (usually a lot
>>> easier if you use Linux/BSD as your server OS, for then you generally
>>> get everything you need at once and less risk for backdoors in modules).
>>
>> Utter nonsense. phpMyAdmin is fully capable of using the much safer
>> mysqli extension, which is used by the mysqlnd extension:
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> I stand corrected in this matter (haven't used phpmyadmin for years and
> back then it didn't support mysqli and it was prone to a lot of security
> issues, which it is still), and it's quite unnecessary to make accusations
> against a person, no matter how subtitle it is.
phpMyAdmin has supported mysqli ever since mysqli came about (PHP 5.0,
2004). (That was *8 years* ago.)
< https://github.com/phpmyadmin/history/blob/master/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-2004>
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.overview.php>
> But still, the OP will need to install the mysql extension
No, they will not, and they should not. It is deprecated for a reason.
>>>> My one site tells me the same:
>>>> Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_error() in...
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> Even if he gets his phpmyadmin to work, his site will not.
> Of course he can rewrite it, but I guess he rather gets it up and running
> now and not next year.
FUD. Go away, and take your address-munged nonsense with you.
PointedEars
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