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paulk7737514
Inspiring
March 21, 2017
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MySQLi or MariaDB

  • March 21, 2017
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I just noticed that the latest version of XAMPP has replaced MySQL with MariaDB, which I have never heard of. To my knowledge, both Joomla and Wordpress continue to use MySQLi. I supposed I could just continue to use older versions of XAMPP but I find this disappointing.

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    Correct answer Rob Hecker2

    MariaDB was made by the same programmer who wrote MySQL. It is extremely similar to MySQL and you can use MySQLi or PDO to interact with it. You won't notice a difference.

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    Rob Hecker2
    Rob Hecker2Correct answer
    Legend
    March 21, 2017

    MariaDB was made by the same programmer who wrote MySQL. It is extremely similar to MySQL and you can use MySQLi or PDO to interact with it. You won't notice a difference.

    paulk7737514
    paulk7737514Author
    Inspiring
    March 21, 2017

    Thanks, Rob!

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