Earlier this month, the PHP developer team moved to start soft deprecating the mysql.so extension via documentation, with a intent to fully E_DEPRECATED in a later release. [1] Therefore, I thought it would be appropriate to start a small discussion as to how this should be handled.
At the current moment, MediaWiki is still using these functions in its DatabaseMysql class. Being a new contributor to MW this came across as odd as to why no MySQLi implementation was available, so I went ahead and created one [2] (Patch [3]). Right now it's just another $wgDBtype, how it should really be integrated is what I want to discuss. Should any implementation (not necessarily mine) using MySQLi just be another DBType in the installer perhaps? (Most software I've seen goes this route) Also, at what point (time or event) do we do away with mysql function support? Also, are there any performance regressions with MySQLi that we should be aware about? [1]: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=131031747409271&w=<http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=131031747409271&w=2> 2 <http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=131031747409271&w=2> [2]: https://github.com/johnduhart/mediawiki-trunk-phase3/commit/552a90f5142bb108cb268e1e47da10351b4f873f [3]: https://gist.github.com/1115789 -- John _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
