Monday, 9 April 2007

mysqlnd-5.0.1 Beta Available

The Internet Super Hero blog has a new post that announces the beta version of the MySQL native driver for PHP—mysqlnd 5.0.1 beta. The post says, the MySQL native driver for PHP is an additional, alternative way to connect from PHP 5 and PHP 6 to the MySQL Server 4.1 or newer. It is a replacement for libmysql, the MySQL Client Library. The MySQL native driver for PHP can connect to MySQL Servers 4.1 or newer, it says.

It also notes that there are no plans to remove libmysql support from ext/mysqli, which would break existing applications.

The 5.0.1-beta release covers the functionality of the libmysql beside some functions that are marked as experimental in the ext/mysqli documentation, it says. The post lists the following additions that have been implemented since the release of 5.0.0-alpha:

• Support for Prepared Statements
• Support for Unicode
• Support for PHP 5
• Performance statistics: mysqli_get_client_stats(), mysqli_get_connection_stats()