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The free Mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin now offers load balancing and lazy connections independent of read write splitting. This makes the plugin attractive for MySQL Cluster users. All nodes participating in a MySQL Cluster can serve all requests, they all accept read and write requests. No statement redirection needs to be done. […]

Would you like to see the EXPLAIN output for all MySQL queries of any PHP application without changing the application much? Easy-peasy: compile PHP to use the mysqlnd library, install PECL/mysqlnd_uh and paste 22 lines of evil code into your auto_prepend_file .

class conn_proxy extends MysqlndUhConnection {
public function query($conn, $query, $self = false) {
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Unfortunately MySQL Proxy was no good source of inspiration today. MySQL Proxy can do many wonderful things which you can do with C based mysqlnd plugins as well. But not with PECL/mysqlnd_uh. PECL/mysqlnd_uh lets you write “plugins” in PHP. Given my desire to demo the power of mysqlnd plugins at the upcoming webinar Succeed […]

It is the third day I try to find mysqlnd plugin use cases for the Succeed with Plugins webinar on October, 26th. Not being innovative or creative today, I looked into a classic: client fail over. As a trained and talented reader, you won’t be shocked to see 54 lines of PECL/mysqlnd_uh hacking today.

class __mysqlnd_conn_failover […]

Support nightmare: a customer reports a random PHP MySQL error. As a support expert you have the strong feeling that it is down to some suspicious SQL sequence. How to proof? 25 lines of PECL/mysqlnd_uh swiss-army knife magic…

prepend.php

class __mysqlnd_logger extends MysqlndUhConnection {
private $protocol;

public function query($conn, $query) {
$ret = parent::query($conn, $query);
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Uh, uh… about a year ago Mayflower OpenSource Labs released the mysqlnd user handler plugin (PECL/mysqlnd_uh). The extension lets you extend and replace mysqlnd internal function calls with PHP. Uh, uh… mysqlnd internals exported to user space? Who cares as long as it does the trick?! Let me show you seven lines of […]