At 23:45 +0100 1/13/03, Stefan Hinz, iConnect (Berlin) wrote:
>Maximo,
>
>> My company's website is running version 3.23.53a, and the main client
>that
>> uses MySQL is PHP 4.2.3. Will mysql_connect() no longer work in
>> PHP? Although this manual entry is talking about the C API functions,
>I
>> assume PHP uses these to communicated with MySQL. Perhaps I might be
>> wrong, but I would like to just double check.
>
>PHP's mysql_connect() is just a wrapper around the C API mysql_connect.
Huh? PHP's mysql_connect() has been using mysql_real_connect() for
several years now.
>As the manual says:
>
>"This function is deprecated. It is preferable to use
>mysql_real_connect() instead."
>
>I assume that PHP 4.2.3 is already using mysql_real_connect(). If this
>is not the case, I'm quite sure (if no one here disagrees ;) that PHP 5
>will.
>
>And I'm really sure that it will always be called mysql_connect() in
>PHP, just to keep things easy.
>
>Regards,
>--
> Stefan Hinz <hinz@stripped>
> Geschäftsführer / CEO iConnect GmbH <http://iConnect.de>
> Heesestr. 6, 12169 Berlin (Germany)
> Tel: +49 30 7970948-0 Fax: +49 30 7970948-3
