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

[Thomas Belknap]

Is the question whether or not it's OK for WP to die, or weather some
notification aught to be sent when it does?

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought WordPress' support for other
> DB's was basically limited to replacing the wpdb class entirely. To
> support another DB, you'd basically make your own db.php file in the
> wp-content directory, then the wp-db.php never gets loaded.
>
> So if that is the case, this mysql_connect function would never get called.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:44 PM, 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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