Mysqli troubles

[Wim Roffel]

I maintain a PHP library that is used by a few thousand people. In the past it used the mysql commands (mysql_connect, etc) but when these were discarded I switched to the mysqli variety as that was the least work and as a consequence gave the least risk of errors.

Now I am running into the problem that quite a few hosting providers don't install the mysqli module and then people come to me reporting a "Call to undefined function mysqli_connect()" error.

So I was wondering whether there is some way around this problem. Maybe some wrapper that I can include so that people don't need this module?