Switch to mysqli driver if mysql selected in PHP 7 #6442
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This updates
JDatabaseDriver::getInstance()
to detect if the requested driver ismysql
which uses the removedext/mysql
PHP extension in PHP 7 and changes the driver option tomysqli
in this environment. A message is logged to the deprecation logger so that a site admin can pick up on the error without disclosing any info to end users.Note that this is not a guaranteed failsafe; if for whatever reason an environment doesn't have the
ext/mysqli
PHP extension this will fail.