Minutes ago (when writing this), we have released a first preview version of PDO_MYSQLND for PHP together with the first preview version of MySQL Connector/OpenOffice.org. Minutes ago, both new developments have been announced at the MySQL Conference.

PDO_MYSQLND announcement explained

We will explain you in more detail what both products are about during the next days. Let me start with a brief overview on PDO_MYSQLND and allow me to cite the announcement.

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Minutes ago (when writing this), we have released a first preview version of PDO_MYSQLND for PHP together with the first preview version of MySQL Connector/OpenOffice.org. Minutes ago, both new developments have been announced at the MySQL Conference.

PDO_MYSQLND announcement explained

We will explain you in more detail what both products are about during the next days. Let me start with a brief overview on PDO_MYSQLND and allow me to cite the announcement.

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Read the rest of PHP: PDO_MYSQLND for PHP preview …

Minutes ago (when writing this), we have released a first preview version of PDO_MYSQLND for PHP together with the first preview version of MySQL Connector/OpenOffice.org. Minutes ago, both new developments have been announced at the MySQL Conference.

PDO_MYSQLND announcement explained

We will explain you in more detail what both products are about during the next days. Let me start with a brief overview on PDO_MYSQLND and allow me to cite the announcement.

The first preview version of PDO_MYSQLND for PHP has been released. PDO_MYSQLND is a new driver for PDO (PHP Data Objects) which can be …

What does any developer do during a train trip? Correct, he’s hacking. He’s at least working on bells and whistles such as foreach() support for buffered ext/mysqli result sets in mysqlnd. Thanks Andrey!

$link = mysqli_connect('host', 'user', 'password');
$res = mysqli_query($link, 'SHOW TABLES FROM mysql');
foreach ($res as $row)
  var_dump($row);
mysqli_free_result($res);
mysqli_close($link);

Note: SVN/CVS only, mysqlnd only, buffered result sets only, no way to enforce any other fetch mode but MYSQLI_FETCH_ASSOC - but quite handy anyway.

What does any developer do during a train trip? Correct, he’s hacking. He’s at least working on bells and whistles such as foreach() support for buffered ext/mysqli result sets in mysqlnd. Thanks Andrey!

$link = mysqli_connect('host', 'user', 'password');
$res = mysqli_query($link, 'SHOW TABLES FROM mysql');
foreach ($res as $row)
  var_dump($row);
mysqli_free_result($res);
mysqli_close($link);

Note: SVN/CVS only, mysqlnd only, buffered result sets only, no way to enforce any other fetch mode but MYSQLI_FETCH_ASSOC - but quite handy anyway.

What does any developer do during a train trip? Correct, he’s hacking. He’s at least working on bells and whistles such as foreach() support for buffered ext/mysqli result sets in mysqlnd. Thanks Andrey!

$link = mysqli_connect('host', 'user', 'password');
$res = mysqli_query($link, 'SHOW TABLES FROM mysql');
foreach ($res as $row)
  var_dump($row);
mysqli_free_result($res);
mysqli_close($link);

Note: SVN/CVS only, mysqlnd only, buffered result sets only, no way to enforce any other fetch mode but MYSQLI_FETCH_ASSOC - but quite handy anyway.

Unimpressed by the ongoing PDO 2 debate, we have continued working on PDO/mysqlnd for MySQL. It turned out that the current status of PDO makes developing and testing a new driver a challenge. I spent quite a lot of time comparing the different behaviours of the various drivers in the hope I could find out how PDO drivers are supposed to work. The PDO documentation and the specification do not cover each and every detail. PDO really needs some love…

Why do people suggest to improve PDO before kicking-off a PDO 2 project?

The challenge of the day was to find out what PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE is about. All what the first page of the PDO manual tells you is, that is is a predefined (class) constant of the type INT. But luckily, there is more to learn about it on the manual page of …

Unimpressed by the ongoing PDO 2 debate, we have continued working on PDO/mysqlnd for MySQL. It turned out that the current status of PDO makes developing and testing a new driver a challenge. I spent quite a lot of time comparing the different behaviours of the various drivers in the hope I could find out how PDO drivers are supposed to work. The PDO documentation and the specification do not cover each and every detail. PDO really needs some love…

Why do people suggest to improve PDO before kicking-off a PDO 2 project?

The challenge of the day was to find out what PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE is about. All what the first page of the PDO manual tells you is, that is is a predefined (class) constant of the type INT. But luckily, there is more to learn about it on the manual page of …

Unimpressed by the ongoing PDO 2 debate, we have continued working on PDO/mysqlnd for MySQL. It turned out that the current status of PDO makes developing and testing a new driver a challenge. I spent quite a lot of time comparing the different behaviours of the various drivers in the hope I could find out how PDO drivers are supposed to work. The PDO documentation and the specification do not cover each and every detail. PDO really needs some love…

Why do people suggest to improve PDO before kicking-off a PDO 2 project?

The challenge of the day was to find out what PDO::FETCH_UNIQUE is about. All what the first page of the PDO manual tells you is, that is is a predefined (class) constant of the type INT. But luckily, there is more to learn about it on the manual page of …

PING mysqlnd.team (MySQL) - 56(84) bytes of data
64 bytes from mysqlnd.team - icmp_seq=1 ttl=3weeks time=1month

Yes, there are delays. But not for the reason that we are having any problems. We have been borrowed out to other teams recently. A short status report.

PONG from mysqlnd.team

Andrey could not resist and has continued researching on parallel and background query operation. Georg was not too happy about this. Not that Georg does not support the idea, no, but Andrey had some other urgent assignments. Well, Andrey sometimes works in sort of waves: do little for some time, hack like crazy on other days. Again, Miha Nedok from http://www.izklop.com/, our alpha-beta-everything-tester number one, has given Andrey’s code studies a test drive and he did not regret it. However, I haven’t tested anything myself. I cannot …