[wp-hackers] WorPress dies silently without MySQL PHP extention

[Ozh]

My guess is that it *is* OK, to prevent an ugly notice and just
display the pretty, maybe custom, error message using wp_die()
instead.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:25 PM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, it's not ok. Should probably remove the @ before the function.
>
> I thought you got a "Can't connect to the database" warning page when that
> happens.
>
> Btw, WordPress doesn't guarantee compatibility with any DB other than MySQL.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Vlad GURDIGA <gurdiga at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> When there is no MySQL PHP extension installed, for example when you
>> have WordPress working on an SQLite DB instead of MySQL, wpdb
>> constructor dies silently trying to
>>
>> $this->dbh = @mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpassword, true);
>>
>> Is that OK?
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