This class is the driver for MySQL databases corresponding to the PHP
extension 'mysql'. This PHP extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5 and
removed in PHP 7.0. It was replaced by the PHP extension 'mysqli',
which is supported and the default MySQL driver since MediaWiki 1.22.
Bug: T120333
Change-Id: Id1478f73e348cdd1ad1f560b1d8ddefe56c52767
use $wgFragmentMode to migrate off it to a modern alternative.
* $wgExternalInterwikiFragmentMode was introduced to control how fragments in
sinterwikis going outside of current wiki farm are encoded.
+* (T120333) Soft-deprecated the use of PHP extension 'mysql' in favor of 'mysqli'.
+ This PHP extension was deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7.0. MediaWiki
+ auto-selects the 'mysqli' driver since MediaWiki 1.22, except if explicitly
+ requested through the configuration parameter $wgDBservers.
=== New features in 1.30 ===
* (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
* Quotes an identifier using `backticks` or "double quotes" depending on the database type.
* MySQL uses `backticks` while basically everything else uses double quotes.
* Since MySQL is the odd one out here the double quotes are our generic
- * and we implement backticks in DatabaseMysql.
+ * and we implement backticks in DatabaseMysqlBase.
*
* @param string $s
* @return string
/**
* Database abstraction object for PHP extension mysql.
*
+ * @deprecated 1.30 PHP extension 'mysql' was deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7.0.
+ * @see PHP extension 'mysqli' and DatabaseMysqli
+ *
* @ingroup Database
* @see Database
*/