MySQLi
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The MySQLi Extension (MySQL Improved) is a relational database driver used in the PHP scripting language to provide an interface with MySQL protocol compatible databases (MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Server, TiDB).
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It is catalogued under topics including Data access technologies, MySQL and PHP libraries.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
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- programmed in
- PHP
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/mysqli
- user manual URL
- www.php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Technical details
- Comparison of features
- Usage
- Dual interface
- Connections
- Executing statements
- Buffered result sets
- Unbuffered result sets
- Result set values data types
- Prepared statements
- Stored procedures
- Multiple statements
- API support for transactions
- Metadata
- The MySQLi extension and persistent connections
- References
- Further reading
The MySQLi Extension (MySQL Improved) is a relational database driver used in the PHP scripting language to provide an interface with MySQL protocol compatible databases (MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Server, TiDB).
MySQLi is an improved version of the older PHP MySQL driver, offering various benefits. The authors of the PHP scripting language recommend using MySQLi when dealing with MySQL server versions 4.1.3 and newer, since it takes advantage of new functionality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MySQLi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.