LOL "MySQLi" Not Installed

[BirdOPrey5]

All ready to run my new copy of XF and immediately dead in my tracks...

• The required PHP extension MySQLi could not be found. Please ask your host to install this extension

Oh well... It would have been nice to try.

 

[Chromaniac]

i prefer to not temper with my server as i had rather not have my host blame me for the possible mishaps!

 

[Programmer]

I contacted my provider and they installed the MySQLi extension in 15 mins or less xD

 

[Elizabeth]

Mine's finished as well. Just got the support email back from them letting me know.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

I am also on URLJet... Will see if they can install it for me too.

 

[Brent W]

So you have to have MySQLi to use xenForo? That is odd.

 

[BirdOPrey5]

So you have to have MySQLi to use xenForo? That is odd.

Yes... now I tried it on my backup host and get this error:
"
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log.

So I won't be installing today...​

 

[Brent W]

Well that is dumb.

 

[Jeremy]

i prefer to not temper with my server as i had rather not have my host blame me for the possible mishaps!

I actually just took down my employers server the other day. Oops.

 

[Edrondol]

The message I just got from the host:

David,
It reconfiguring now and will be ready in the morning.


*sigh*

 

[BirdOPrey5]

Yes... now I tried it on my backup host and get this error:
"
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.
The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log.

So I won't be installing today...​

funny thing is the test script says requirements were met.

 

[Brent W]

Something tells me this is an actual bug. MySQLi should not be a requirement for software of any kind.

 

[Mike]

Something tells me this is an actual bug. MySQLi should not be a requirement for software of any kind.

Why not? It's an interface to access MySQL. The concept is the same as PHP's mysql extension or PDO.

It uses MySQL's binary protocol, which handles types differently from the string protocol, and this is an important distinction.

 

[mlx]

Something tells me this is an actual bug. MySQLi should not be a requirement for software of any kind.

Even the PHP docs mention this:

Note:

If you are using MySQL versions 4.1.3 or later it is strongly recommended that you use the mysqli extension instead.

 

[Brent W]

Why not? It's an interface to access MySQL. The concept is the same as PHP's mysql extension or PDO.

It uses MySQL's binary protocol, which handles types differently from the string protocol, and this is an important distinction.

Just seems odd to me that MySQL would not be supported, but I guess I am just used to vBulletin being backwards compatible with everything. It doesn't hurt me, as MySQLi is installed on all my servers. Just figured it was odd to see a software not work without it.

 

[x3nF0R0]

IIRC CentOS/Fedora/RHEL users can just run 'yum install php-mysqli' and then do 'service apache restart' once done. Don't quote me on it though as I use my own automated shell script for my server setups.

[root@community]# yum install php-mysqli
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: php-mysqli
Nothing to do
[root@community]#

centos cant install, anyone help? thanks!

 

[Shamil]

Try using:

pecl install mysqli

PHP will install the mysqli extension as a pecl extension. What version of PHP do you have installed?

 

[Shamil]

Just seems odd to me that MySQL would not be supported, but I guess I am just used to vBulletin being backwards compatible with everything. It doesn't hurt me, as MySQLi is installed on all my servers. Just figured it was odd to see a software not work without it.

My current content management system uses mysqli only.

 

[Floris]

Good suggestion shamil

 

[Floren]

Just seems odd to me that MySQL would not be supported, but I guess I am just used to vBulletin being backwards compatible with everything. It doesn't hurt me, as MySQLi is installed on all my servers. Just figured it was odd to see a software not work without it.

This is like saying that you request the software to support PHP4, even if EOL was announced almost 5 years ago.
Don't worry, XenForo still uses "deprecated" stuff... for example the Memcache extension. I would love to see the Memcached object implemented into it, combined with an igbinary serialization.

 

[Brad Mills]

I have the same message on a hostgator dedicated box. Just put in a ticket