Re: PDO vs. mysqli

On 02.09.2016 at 15:09, Jacob Kruger wrote:

> Up to now have just been working with mysqli, using prepared statements,
> passing parameters, etc., but, was looking into PDO now, and seems to,
> among other things offer a more dynamic form of parameter passing, etc.
> 
> Either way, was just wondering if there's are any specific reasons
> should stick to just working with mysqli directly, or if should switch
> over to making use of PDO more often/most of the time?

The main advantage of PDO over MySQLi appears to be that it's much
easier to support another RDBMS, if the need arises.

> AFAIK, most servers should, nowadays handle/support PDO in any case - am
> working with XAMPP here on my dev machine, which is windows 10 64 bit,
> but anyway.

You're probably referring to shared hosting services.  I assume that
almost all support PDO, and most of them PDO_MYSQL (and supposedly, all
that offer MySQLi also support PDO_MYSQL).

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Christoph M. Becker

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