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

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#21663: Use mysqli for MySQL queries when available
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 Reporter:  scottconnerly   |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.9
Component:  Database        |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-testing   |     Focuses:
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Comment (by nacin):

 What's left here? I got:

  * Don't force ext/mysqli in RC versions, as we had at one point
 discussed.
  * Documentation on this new complexity in our database layer.
  * Email the authors of all plugins that use mysql_* functions directly.
  * Get Travis CI to run the test suite under both MySQL and MySQLi. (As
 noted by pento, if we didn't force ext/mysqli in development versions,
 this would already just happen automatically for PHP 5.2/5.3/5.4 versus
 PHP 5.5. I'm fine with Travis running like that if we can make it work.)

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