I'm moving my code from using mysql in PHP to mysqli. In order to get the mysqli get_result() function to work I need to install mysqlnd as said here on SO. This involves removing the existing php-mysql extension, and now I just want to make sure (those of you who did this) that once I remove the mysql with:
yum remove php-mysql
and install mysqlnd with:
yum install php-mysqlnd
the other code (there's a lot of existing codebase) that uses mysql will still work?
My PHP Version is 5.3.27
I would like to generally answer that NO it's not safe to just remove php-mysql and install php-mysqlnd, especially if you're not "a server guy". Because once I removed php-mysql I removed phpmyadmin along with it and that was quite a disaster.
I ended up (with help of Rackspace server guys) with upgrading my PHP to 5.4 (can't go to 5.5 yet until I convert all my code to use mysqli) and then manually forcing the install of php54-mysqlnd-5.4.17-1.ius.el6.x86_64 (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php-mysqlnd/), because of the error while trying to do it "the normal way" Error: php54-mysql conflicts with php54-mysqlnd-5.4.17-1.ius.el6.x86_64. Hope this helps someone.