MySQLi or MariaDB

[paulk7737514]

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.

[Rob Hecker2 · Accepted solution]

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]

Thanks, Rob!