XF 1.3 Is PDO supported?

[PaulB]

I found this thread from 2011, which states that there is [was] no support for the Zend PDO adapter. However, I just enabled in on 1.3.1, and it appears to be working. Is this "officially supported", "unsupported but probably working", or "unlikely to work properly"?

I suspect that switching to PDO may fix some occasional MySQL hiccups that we're seeing, so I'd appreciate knowing if it's worth switching. I'm not against a little hacking around, if necessary.

 

[Mike]

PDO is unsupported and has not even been tried officially since pre-1.0 days.

I don't know why PDO would sort anything. It's a wrapper API; the queries are still going to MySQL in the same way (if real prepared statements are used).

 

[PaulB]

I don't know why PDO would sort anything. It's a wrapper API; the queries are still going to MySQL in the same way (if real prepared statements are used).

It's possible that some of the problems we're encountering are high-level. It'd be convenient if we could rule out the adapter by switching to PDO.

 

[Walter]

PDO only would add an additional layer on top, this would solve none of your problems.

 

[PaulB]

PDO only would add an additional layer on top, this would solve none of your problems.

It would definitely solve some of our higher-level problems. I consider "excessive time spent developing an unmaintainable add-on" to be a problem.