[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21663: Use PDO for MySQL queries when PDO is available

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#21663: Use PDO for MySQL queries when PDO is available
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 Reporter:  scottconnerly                        |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)                       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
Component:  Database                             |  Release
 Severity:  normal                               |     Version:  3.5
 Keywords:  dev-feedback has-patch needs-        |  Resolution:
  testing                                        |
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Comment (by nacin):

 WordPress supports MySQL-like databases. That includes MariaDB and Percona
 Server. In fact, WordPress.org uses Percona for quite a bit. Both work
 just fine with WordPress as-is, right now — even with ext-mysql or ext-
 mysqli — and shouldn't impact any decision points here.

 Also, I think "full" support for PHP 5.5 is already built-in. The main
 reason why the PHP core developers were convinced they should finally
 deprecate ext-mysql is because a WordPress lead developer told them to
 just rip the band-aid off and do it already. WordPress would then adapt to
 the changing landscape because that's what we were good at. But ext-mysql
 still works in 5.5; you're just annoyed by some deprecated messages.
 Anyone operating PHP 5.5 — which is basically no one at under 0.1% of
 WordPress sites — knows what they're doing, and they can best serve the
 WordPress project by testing out markoheijnen's plugin.

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