When developing content for WordPress like themes or plugins it is always important to test the results on various server configurations and WordPress versions. Because it doesn’t make fun to run multiple PHP verions locally and it’s too expensive to have several testing machines, it is a good idea to use virtual machines for this […]
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Using PHP’s mysqli extension with WordPress
At the moment the database object implemented in WordPress (wpdb) relies on the mysql extension (mysql_connect). As PHP 5.5 will not support the mysql extension anymore and it’s highly recommended to use the mysqli extension with MySQL versions 4.1.3 or later, I was looking for a way to use the mysqli extension with WordPress without […]