[wp-hackers] wp + mysql ?

[Viper007Bond]

All of my WordPress installs run PHP 5 and MySQL 5 and have been doing so
for years.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Christopher J. Hradil <chradil at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Thanks for the info, that's more or less what I thought. I have some good
> information on resolving/avoiding the charset/collation probs when
> installing/upgrading, I'll see if I can make some time to post it
> somewhere.
>
>
>
> Thanks again../c
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Otto
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:07 PM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] wp + mysql ?
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Christopher J. Hradil
> <chradil at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 1)      Is WP mysql 5.x+ compatible ?
>
> Yes.
>
> > more specifically are we capable/using
> > the mysqli lib as opposed to the mysql lib ?
>
> No. WP uses the mysql library. However, this talks to MySQL 5 just fine,
> AFAIK.
>
> > 2)      Any further issues with WP charsets/data collations ? I've
> tracked
> a
> > number of issues past few years, haven't noticed anything major lately so
> > I'm guessing it's mostly been resolved, and there especially shouldn't be
> > any issues with utf8_general_ci or utf8 collation
>
> Not in general, no, but in specific some people have issues during
> upgrades if they set their collation to the wrong thing. This could be
> fixed by converting their database, but in general it's simpler to
> just tell them to remove the collation setting in wp-config.php.
>
> > 3)      Any probs with php 5.x or associated libs ? we've got a ton of
> > plugins across a bunch of sites that just seem to break under more
> 'modern'
> > version of wp and anything beyond php 4.x, I've been to lazy to
> > re-write/correct these, so those sites haven't been updated yet, but the
> > time is coming.
>
> WP itself runs fine under PHP 5, and more and more plugins are
> requiring it nowadays.
>
> PHP 4 is dead. It just has not stopped thrashing yet.
>
> -Otto
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