[PHP-INSTALL] php - libmysqlclient question

[Hajo Locke]

Hello,

i want to talk from php to different mysql-servers with different versions.
is it a recommend way to compile php always against newest libmysqlclient or
not so important?

Thanks,
Andre

[Daniel Brown]

Post by Hajo Locke
Hello,
i want to talk from php to different mysql-servers with different versions.
is it a recommend way to compile php always against newest libmysqlclient or
not so important?

You should use the newest stable version so you can take advantage
of the latest features and fixes, but unless you're going back really
far - like MySQL 3.23 - any modern client version should have no
negative impact. Even in that case it may not, but that's a better
question for either the php-db@ list or the MySQL General list (both
CC'd for folks to add anything I may have forgotten).