There are a number of changes for working with MySQL in PHP 5, due in no small part to new features and APIs coming online in MySQL 4.1 and 5.0. At IPC2k4, Zak Greant and Georg Richter walked the audience through the ingenious "i" in MySQL, mysqli. Further, Georg Richter, author and maintainer of the mysqli extension, held court in S5 on the new key features, the object-oriented interface, and how to use mysqli for writing better applications. I spoke to Zak and Georg on this "improved", and "ingenious", ext/mysqli. Here are the excerpts:
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Today, I met a lot of cool people, so I'm hesitant to try and remember them all as I'm sure I’ll leave someone out. Anyway, here's a go… Pierre-Alain Joye, Christian Stocker, Zeev Suraski, Pierre Minnuer, Alan Knowles, Damien Seguy, Radu Negoescu, Sandro Zic, Sebastian Bergmann, and many other people who stopped by the PEAR booth (which I hovered around for part of the morning).
It seems I somehow ended up with the responsibility of managing yet another meeting at a PHP Conf. This time around I am arranging a meeting for PDO. I hope that we will be able to lay down the criterias for PDO in order to make it into PHP 5.1 in that meeting. This means we need to bring all open issues on the table and resync everybody's vision. Hopefully most people will be busy drinking beer instead of surfing the Web. That way we might have enough bandwidth to get Wez/George and potentially Andi on board via Skype. I brought along a little mic and usb speakers for this purpose. Lets see how it works out. Otherwise we just need to turn one of us into an audio2ascii gateway :-) ]]>