User talk:Xyber411

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Thanks for being understanding about my edit to your comments toward CMS users on the "Installing PHP5 page". I wasn't trying to be critical; I just thought the issue was "confused" and that it belonged on the "talk" page until we understood it, and could write a paragraph that was more accurate. I've added some comments to that discussion on the talk page this morning. Regards - Rlparker 10:44, 12 Dec 2006 (PST)

Thanks for your note on the above section on my talk page. I hope you don't mind that I moved your comments over to the Talk:Installing PHP5 page, so the discussion could "stay in one place" and others who might have been monitoring it could comment, and I responded to it there. I suspect that the whole discussion may be deleted from the page there "soon", as the discussion is not really about Installing PHP5, and as you will see in my comments, suggested you may want to move it to a more appropriate spot. Regards - Rlparker 05:36, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)

MySQL and MySQLi with PHP5

This is a follow-up to your entry on my talk page. You wrote: I updated the discussion at Installing_PHP5 a little. Any chance you could tell me how to force my PHP5 install to use mysql instead of mysqli? --Xyber411 12:45, 13 Dec 2006 (PST) -

The use of mysql or mysqli, from within an installation of PHP5 that is compiled with both options, is completely dictated by the code written to utilize the functions, not the installation of PHP5 itself. Different applications do this in different ways. Some test for the existence of MySQLI and use it if it is there, others use either mysqli or mysql (and I suppose there are some out there that use both, possibly for optimization purposes!); it is the programmer's decision, and different programmers implement it differently. One of the other issues that complicates all this is that some of these programming decisions are impacted by the version of MySQL installed also, as there are differences between MySQL 5 and older versions. In short, each application does this differently, and you can't "force" the "use" of MySQL or MySQLi in a given application by how you install PHP5; you can only *make available* or *preclude* either's use by including or not including support for the functions.

I think your best chance of sorting what is happening with Drupal's login is to investigate your issue with the Drupal support community. I'm sorry, I'm just not that familiar with it's particulars. Rlparker 18:22, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)