If you’re following MySQL or PHP landscape you should have seen announcement by MySQL to develop pure PHP driver. If not – Here is FAQ . I’m to meet the team (Georg, Andrey etc) which will be developing this driver… switch from PS to standard statements to check bugs and performance difference without changing my application. Also there are bunch of…
Post: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
November 12, 2006 By 31 Comments
… know PHP “mysql” extension supported persistent connections but they were disabled … you could misuse persistent connections and get poor performance that was not the reason. The real reason … some MySQL support to be properly implemented. Now with new “mysqlnd” driver for PHP effort by MySQL team …
Post: MySQL Prepared Statements
August 2, 2006 By 19 Comments
…performance in your application using MySQL you should learn about prepared statements. These do not neccesary provide performance… statements which JDBC, ODBC and some other drivers had forever. Now query passed to the …. I had a lot of problems with PHP prepared statements. It is getting better but …
Comment: Wishes for new "Pure PHP" MySQL driver
October 28, 2006 By 17 Comments
… for years, while it is possible to implement it in driver rather easily. Also server does not have full picture – ie… performance than about portability – for my application chance of going from MySQL to something else is probably less than rewriting them from PHP… is something which could be well build in into the driver as it is very typical task. 5) Connection pooling daemon…
