Archiv für den Monat July, 2007

PHP: mysqlnd and its tests

Monday, July 30th, 2007

You want to run the mysqlnd tests, because you never trust anybody else test results? In particular you are getting sceptical if anybody claims to have reached a certain level of stability? Read on, here’s a step-by-step for faking your own test results.

New tests …

PHP extensions can test their userland (PHP) functionality using so called […]

PHP: What is mysqlnd, do I need it?

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

A blog comment from Ian makes me wonder if I failed to state clearly what mysqlnd is. See below for his comment. Ian, I am thankful for your blog comment and question! Probably you are not the only reader who needs a little more background knowledge about mysqlnd. Please allow me to answer your question […]

PHP: mysqlnd checked in to PHP 6 (HEAD)

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Recently mysqlnd, the MySQL native driver for PHP, has been checked in to the PHP 6 (HEAD) development tree on cvs.php.net. This blog posting gives a quick overview how you can build PHP 5 and PHP 6 with mysqlnd support.

What mysqlnd is and what not

If you do not know what mysqlnd is or not is, […]

PHP: Is mysqlnd stable?

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Is mysqlnd stable, is mysqlnd ready for wider consumption? Judging from the latest set of tests: yes!

During the development of mysqlnd, the MySQL native driver for PHP - an alternative to libmysql, a good number of new tests have been written. Let’s see how ext/mysql and ext/mysqli perform when running the test suite. Please […]