This library attempts to create a drop-in replacement for ext/mysql on PHP 7 using mysqli.

For the most part, it should just work, although you either need to prefix all calls with a \ (only internal functions will fallback to the global scope) or import the functions into every file (e.g. use function \mysql_connect).

To install, either add dshafik/php7-mysql-shim to your composer.json:

$ composer require dshafik/php7-mysql-shim

or, clone/download this repo, and include mysql.php in your project.

Once the file is included, it will create mysql_* function if they don't already exist.

• Calls to is_resource() and get_resource_type() on MySQL connections and results will fail as these are now their mysqli equivalents. -Some errors are now from ext/mysqli, and others are E_USER_WARNING instead of E_WARNING.
• Column lengths reported by mysql_field_len() assume latin1