Re: Re: PDO vs. mysqli

It does seem like a pretty standardly implemented extension, but, 
suppose different hosting providers might offer different database 
engine support.

  Either way, both my primary dev environment, XAMPP, and my secondary 
test environment, uWamp have it included, and my online servers also 
have all the support I want implemented, so, will definitely be working 
with it for now.


Thanks for responses, guys


Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Resistance is futile, but, acceptance is versatile..."

On 2016-09-05 12:51 AM, Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> 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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